r/mildlyinfuriating • u/BiteInfamous • 10h ago

I'm slightly vexed Taxi driver wearing noise cancelling headphones while driving in the city

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Look I’m PMSing so I’m admittedly in a very nit picky time of my life. But. Don’t love weaving in and out of traffic in a major city while the taxi driver has noice cancelling headphones on. The sound is loud enough I can hear whatever (moderately funny) comedy show he’s listening to in the backseat. This is ill advised, yes?

ETA thanks to everyone who taught me about transparent mode today :)

ETA2 : Okay, I’m the asshole, comments have shown me there’s lots that could be going on with the driver to make him need to use these and there’s way he could do so safely. Mea culpa. That’ll teach me to knee jerk react.

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u/mandatorypanda9317 10h ago edited 8h ago

So now I gotta ask because I genuinely dont know, are deaf people not allowed to drive? I dont think ive ever thought about it

Edit: the answer is YES THEY CAN DRIVE (thank you for pointing out my dumbass use of the English language haha) I also looked up laws in my state about headphones and apparantly here you can only wear them over ONE ear lol

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u/Ixaire 10h ago edited 10h ago

Speaking only for my country, but they are. They can drive without any restriction, don't have to wear hearing aids of any sort and it's common knowledge that they sign behind the wheel. They are used to rely on their other senses more.

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u/powderjunkie11 9h ago

There must be a lot more deaf drivers than I thought…drivers message me through their hands all the time while driving . What does this one mean🖕🖕

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u/grape-fruit-witch 8h ago

"Peace among worlds"!