Problem is the people who don’t have quality earbuds that put other drivers and emergency vehicles at risk, and how do you tell if someone is using a pass through pair or no from a distance? Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get it, why not just listen to the radio in the car? Personally I can’t even wear a Bluetooth headset because I am all but deaf in one ear and won’t risk not hearing a siren or horn.
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.