ace5000
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Driving at night with your lights off and eyes closed?
Driving at night with your lights off and eyes closed?
I'm not a Formula One driver, but I put many city, highway, and country road miles on a year in all kinds of weather. If I was a race car driver, I would probably wear “noise limiting” ear plugs to prevent damage to my ears, but am still able discern what's going on around me. Perhaps that is what they actually wear and not, “earplugs.” I don't know for sure, but it makes sence to me.
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Allow me to close my post with an equally confounding question:
Is playing Russian Roulette unsafe?
Deaf people are actually safer drivers than jokers like us wearing headphones, because of a phenomenon called sensory substitution, which is the brain's way of attempting to compensate for the loss of one sense (hearing in this case) by enhancing others (mainly vision for driving):
"Brain plasticity is the brain’s ability to adapt to the complete absence or the deterioration of a sense. Sensory substitution is therefore most likely explained through the study of brain plasticity. Cortical re-mapping or reorganization takes place when the brain experiences some sort of deterioration. This is an evolutionary mechanism that allows people with the deprivation of a sense to adapt and compensate by using other senses. Functional imaging of congenitally blind patients showed a cross-modal recruitment of the occipital cortex during the realization perceptual tasks such as Braille reading, tactile perception, tactual object recognition, sound localization, and sound discrimination.[4] This shows that blind people can use their occipital lobe, generally used for vision, to perceive objects though the use of other sensory modalities, which would explain their oft-displayed propensity towards increased strength of the other senses."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_substitution#Brain_plasticity
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My 2 cents re driving with headphones,
Motorbikes are small and can move quickly into your blind spot, and you might miss it in your mirror. If you have earphones on, you wont hear its loud engine (which how i normally know bikes are around me)
Quote:My 2 cents re driving with headphones,
Motorbikes are small and can move quickly into your blind spot, and you might miss it in your mirror. If you have earphones on, you wont hear its loud engine (which how i normally know bikes are around me)
With a good luxury car, you won't hear it either. Just putting that out there.
well, that's why we've got bikes with louder and louder exhaust pipes, because "noise saves lives'
Quote:well, that's why we've got bikes with louder and louder exhaust pipes, because "noise saves lives'
I'll just say that living in HK... there is almost no cars that allows noise to be leaked from the outside. Except for sirens, that's the only thing that will cut through the isolation barrier of a luxury car.