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People with double arm amputations can also drive but if you or I decided to go out and drive with our feet it would be stupid.

• gambiting 7y ago
  The difference is that they obviously use cars that are modified and certified for use with foot controls(at least here in EU they are, I wouldn't be surprised if US didn't require any certification whatsoever). You also get a restriction on your licence saying that you can only drive such vehicles. A deaf person doesn't have any restrictions - my point is that there is no functional or legal difference between a deaf person driving and a person driving with earplugs in, the law doesn't specify a requirement that you have to be able to hear to drive.
  • VBprogrammer 7y ago
    The law doesn't have to require something to make it not a good idea. My point was, I'm not deaf, but I'm fairly sure that on average deaf people are much better adapted to life with limited hearing than you or I would be when wearing ear buds. It doesn't logically follow that because a deaf person is allowed to drive we should be able to artificially reduce our hearing ability while driving.
    • brokenmachine 7y ago
      By that same logic, if someone wears ear buds every time while driving they also become adapted to driving with ear buds.