Ban On Ear Buds While Operating Bike, Car One Of Several New Laws Taking Effect In 2016

CBS SAN FRANCISCO ^ | 31 DECEMBER 2015 | CBS - SF

[BuffaloJack]

I don’t even like dark glasses, because they make it harder to see things. Ear buds and head phones should only be used while sitting in a comfy chair at home.

[GailA]

If your car is fairly new it has a USB port built in, download all the music you want and put it on a Memory Stick and plug it in. It’s what my husband does. He does 99% of the driving when we go anywhere.

I am hearing impaired, wear twin hearing aids and find driving with the radio on a very big distraction to hearing out of car necessary noises. But I can now hear that window whistle all to well. And they are supposed to be airtight. He doesn’t hear it. Can’t drive with the windows down either, wind noise over rides the hearing aids.

As for wearing something over them it is a big issue, even using the phone is. I have to use speaker phone to hear. It depends on the type of hearing aids you are using, mine are the over the ear type that plug up the ear canal. Not phone compatible. Which is why we have a Chevy Equinox with On Star, we dumped the radio part, and kept the navigation and phone part, Lots CHEAPER. Our music is on a 4 gig Memory Stick in the USB port.

A lot of youth who do this buy their cheapo ear bud from the $ Tree store or Big Lots, or cheap places like that. Even when I could wear them I chose a inline single bud so I could answer phone calls hands free. And have one ear free. Now that I’m in twin hearing aids. You can’t do that there are just to many limitations due to the style of aids you are wearing.