2006-11-13 11:48:00 · 14 answers · asked by wsmcbrc 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I am deaf, i have been deaf for 16 years since i was 14. i never wanted to drive i was afraid to drive. but when my mom died 2 years ago my husband asked me to start so i have had my liscense for over a year now and i am a very safe driver. deaf people have a tendency to look in their mirror more often to see what is behind them in case a cop or ambulance comes up out of no where. since we cant hear it we have to be able to see it. headphones distract a hearing persons ability to remember they are actually driving. i know alot of people who can hear that love to listen to music and sing along with it and forget to look in the mirror to see whats back there. compairing headphones and deafness isnt a good thing theres nothing deaf people can do about being deaf where hearing people can do alot they can stop wearing headphones while driving and not use the excuse i didnt hear the siren. they could have they just chose not too by listening to music instead. thats just an example im not saying anything bad about hearing people my husbadn does it all the time. even with out headphones. i dont even know how on earth people who dont wear the headphones can hear the sirens. some play music so loud it vibrates the car and others cars at stop lights so how on earth would they hear the sirens?
thats just my view from being deaf. hope this helps in some way.
you dont have to learn specially to drive. you take regular driving classes you have the same type of car. mine isnt fixed for a hearing impaied person and i ahve never heard of one being like that. hearing impaired people do not get special priviliages when driving. yeah we do get distracted. i dont sign i lip read but i dont talk while i am driving. i stay focused on the road. my kids are important to me and i want to get there in one piece. had my permit 16 times and didnt want to get them. i never took my test. practiced for 3 hours with my husband and passed my exam with flying colors. my only requirement for my impairment is to look in my mirrors often which i do anyways.
but i love life is wrong. hearing impaired people ARE NOT trained for their impairment in driving. theres no difference in our driving then a hearing persons our senses are more hightened but we arent taught to drive any differently we take the came courses same teachers. nothing is different except that they can hear and we cannot.
2006-11-13 12:56:36 · answer #1 · answered by Da_Lioness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because people that are deaf all of there other senses are heightened more then those of us that can hear, so they pay more attention to everything else then the rest of us do. so by a person that can hear using headphones is loosing a sense so you are less aware of what is going on around you. that is some of the thinking about it. also most of the people that are deaf did not choose it, but they still work and have jobs so how are they going to get there when they cant drive
2006-11-13 12:39:40 · answer #2 · answered by Coconuts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deaf people, while still able to be distracted, are not distracted by sounds (obviously). Driving with headphones is not the same as being deaf because you are attending to both the music and driving, where as being deaf, you are only attending to driving (sometimes signing while driving, which may seem to be distracting, is not as bad as you think, because they are used to it).
Deaf people cannot be prohibited from obtaining a license, but someone who puts on headphones while driving is impairing their senses purposely, and they are not as adapted to driving impaired as a person who is deaf is.
2006-11-13 13:49:52 · answer #3 · answered by seasonsoflove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could consider no longer enabling deaf individuals to force could be discrimination. But as for dressed in headphones this is a distraction and also you can not listen ambulances bobbing up at the back of you, or the police. Deaf individuals are visually extra alert then non-deaf on account that they just have that (their imaginative and prescient) to depend on. They say whilst a character is missing a way their others come to be more potent. Like Helen Keller. She used to be blind, however within the ebook it talks of ways eager her listening to used to be. Just a concept.
2016-09-01 12:02:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a stupid question!Though the deaf person cannot hear their focus remains on driving,If you are listening to headphones your attention is divided between the music and driving which could cause an accident.It has nothing to do with whether or not you can hear!
2006-11-13 11:53:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Deaf people are trained in driving for their particular handicap, and their vehicles are usually equipped with special devises to warn driver of emergency equipment, etc. As for headphones, they impair the driver, and the drivers ability to focus on the task at hand - driving. Headphones on walker are dangerous enough, I have seen numerous near misses with absent minded walkers and cars, trucks and trains.
2006-11-13 11:53:52 · answer #6 · answered by I_Love_Life! 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
that's a really good question, i didn't even know you weren't allowed to drive with headphones on..... or that deaf people can drive
2006-11-13 11:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by bex d. 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because not allowing a deaf person to drive can be legally construed as discrimination, whereas not allowing people that can hear to listen to music while driving can not be legally construed as discrimination.
2006-11-13 11:58:17 · answer #8 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Headphones not only block out sounds you might need to hear , they are also a distraction., like a cell phone or 5000w of hip hop.
2006-11-13 11:52:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
deaf people are not distracted by the tunes and it is generally thought that they have better powers of observation than the rest of us
2006-11-13 11:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by sterling m 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋