so ban radios in vehicles
A car radio is not in effect earplugs, earbuds and headphones are.
Headphones completely cut off sensory information from your environment. Car radios don’t.
I don’t have a clue as to why they need to pass a law on this, it should be common sense. When I used earphones, when I biked, I didn’t put them over my ears so I could still be aware of what was happening around me.
Agree. As far as I know there isn’t a ban on deaf people driving so the legal reason for banning them couldn’t be not being about to ‘hear’ traffic. And as you pointed out, if it is distraction, then they would have to ban radios also. Society all too often reacts rather than think.