2006-08-20 19:59:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Driving is permitted but colorblind drivers must pay close attention to the position and intensity of traffic signals.
Colorblind drivers take note: The single place in the USA where the Green Light is on TOP in a traffic signal is in Syracuse, New York in an Irish-American neighborhood called 'Tipperary Hill.'
The signal does NOT comply with the Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices standards, and presents a great hazard to persons with red-green color blindness who rely on the position of the lit signal rather than its color.
http://www.empirestateroads.com/photos/onondaga/
Here's a great link showing what a colorblind person sees:
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html
2006-08-20 20:49:57 · answer #1 · answered by loaferpost 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 20:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by satornino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES THEY DO. Colorblind people rely on the brightness of the light. You know if you look at a traffic light, regardless of color, you know which one is lit up, right? Well they know that if the top is lit, they shouldn't go and if the bottom is lit, they can. I can't think of any other MAJOR issues they would have driving. Being color blind is not a debilitating handicap.
2006-08-20 20:06:12 · answer #3 · answered by goodlittlegirl11 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same way you and I do. Did you know colorblind people make better snipers because black&white vision gives them better contrast ?
2006-08-20 20:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can drive when you are color blind. A kid in my senior class was color blind and we asked him. He said there are different shades of colors. When a red light is red it is a dense grey and he can see that it is more gray than when it changes to green. Then the red light is shaded lighter and the green light is shaded darker. They have to pay more attention to traffic flow also.
2006-08-24 02:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean because of traffic lights? Red is always on top, yellow in the middle and green on the bottom, or left to right if the light is horizontal. That's easy enough.
2006-08-20 20:05:27 · answer #6 · answered by cool_breeze_2444 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They look at the position of the light not the color. And they drive more cautiously or they get lots and lots of tickets.
2006-08-20 20:10:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like normal people except i think they have to take some sort of course and get a color blinded license =D
2006-08-20 20:05:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can't becuz they're color blind they cannot read the traffic lights mostly they stick to walking or taking a bus.
2006-08-21 05:05:16 · answer #9 · answered by Barack Obama rules 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the same way deaf people listen to music
2006-08-20 20:09:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋