Deaf people don’t have a choice not to hear and have heightened visual awareness. They also have accessibility tools to assist and bridge the gap in awareness.
Oh nice? What kind of tools? I’ve always been curious. Although a heightened visual awareness seems dubious. How could you even begin to quantify that?
Similar for smoke alarms, they have devices that essentially “listen” for specific sounds/frequencies and will then flash (AVC or audio-visual conversion) when triggered. Essentially “if this is flashing, the house is likely burning down”.
Increased visual awareness is just “they pay more attention to this sense due to lacking another” rather than the stereotypical “Im blind but I can see sounds” like daredevil. It would be interesting to see if it is actually quantified or captured by studies though.
Just my wife and I. We are having breakfast and I showed her your comment, nearly spit her food out. Good times all round.
Technology can be made to assist every disability just about. Have you seen or heard of anyone using this technology in the wild? What was that? Did you say no? Right, thats the same as us. Because apart from edge cases, pilot schemes or the-guy-on-the-internet-trying-to-win-internet-points, it isn’t being used.
Your wife spit her food at out the idea of someone providing the requested example of accessibility tools used by deaf or hard of hearing? Im hearing impaired by the way. Maybe you should show your totally real wife this study suggesting low penetration due to stigma attached using them. Maybe you should ask your wife how she’s feels about people using her disability as an excuse for being irresponsible while driving; though Im super worried she’ll just laugh at me again. Most of my partners haven’t seen or heard of most of the devices I use for hearing loss until they dated me. Guess that means they don’t exist by your definition.
Just coming in later, would you please ask your laughing wife how she knows when she’ll need to pull out of the way when an ambulance is approaching, and has she ever had one sneak up on her/catch her off guard?
I bet she notices the lights and also other cars moving over, right?
Because I’ve seen an ambulance get fucking stuck behind an asshole who was driving with headphones on. Lights and siren, but he was too fucking distracted to even notice. The cars on the other side of the double yellow squeezed over enough for the ambulance to get around, because they were paying attention. Like your wife does, I assume.
Because what’s in her ears is quietude, and that’s not as distracting as whatever the headphones are playing.
Deaf people don’t have a choice not to hear and have heightened visual awareness. They also have accessibility tools to assist and bridge the gap in awareness.
Oh nice? What kind of tools? I’ve always been curious. Although a heightened visual awareness seems dubious. How could you even begin to quantify that?
Similar for smoke alarms, they have devices that essentially “listen” for specific sounds/frequencies and will then flash (AVC or audio-visual conversion) when triggered. Essentially “if this is flashing, the house is likely burning down”.
Increased visual awareness is just “they pay more attention to this sense due to lacking another” rather than the stereotypical “Im blind but I can see sounds” like daredevil. It would be interesting to see if it is actually quantified or captured by studies though.
Those types of accessories are not used whilst driving.
Wrong. https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/hyundai-reveals-tech-for-hearing-impaired-drivers Edit: less recently https://www.tomtom.com/newsroom/product-focus/amigo-hearing-impaired-mode/
Lol did you have to Google that. My wife is deaf, half my friends group are deaf. We are laughing at this.
Im sure they are. All just standing around laughing at my link showing something exist that you claimed didn’t, that’s very funny after all.
Just my wife and I. We are having breakfast and I showed her your comment, nearly spit her food out. Good times all round.
Technology can be made to assist every disability just about. Have you seen or heard of anyone using this technology in the wild? What was that? Did you say no? Right, thats the same as us. Because apart from edge cases, pilot schemes or the-guy-on-the-internet-trying-to-win-internet-points, it isn’t being used.
Your wife spit her food at out the idea of someone providing the requested example of accessibility tools used by deaf or hard of hearing? Im hearing impaired by the way. Maybe you should show your totally real wife this study suggesting low penetration due to stigma attached using them. Maybe you should ask your wife how she’s feels about people using her disability as an excuse for being irresponsible while driving; though Im super worried she’ll just laugh at me again. Most of my partners haven’t seen or heard of most of the devices I use for hearing loss until they dated me. Guess that means they don’t exist by your definition.
Just coming in later, would you please ask your laughing wife how she knows when she’ll need to pull out of the way when an ambulance is approaching, and has she ever had one sneak up on her/catch her off guard?
I bet she notices the lights and also other cars moving over, right?
Because I’ve seen an ambulance get fucking stuck behind an asshole who was driving with headphones on. Lights and siren, but he was too fucking distracted to even notice. The cars on the other side of the double yellow squeezed over enough for the ambulance to get around, because they were paying attention. Like your wife does, I assume.
Because what’s in her ears is quietude, and that’s not as distracting as whatever the headphones are playing.
Your scenario assumes that listening to music causes distracted driving. Not convinced.