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> You use more senses than just vision when driving a car Deaf drivers (may include drivers playing loud music too) don't, unless they're somehow tasting the o
by ndsipa_pomu 1y ago
> You use more senses than just vision when driving a car
Deaf drivers (may include drivers playing loud music too) don't, unless they're somehow tasting the other vehicles.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoWe have these things called "inner ears." I'm pretty sure deaf people have them, too. Nature's accelerometers. I've had mine go bad, and it wasn't fun. Just sayin'...
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoWere you unable to drive when your inner ears weren't functioning?
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI guess so. I was unable to stand up.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoSounds horrible. I can understand that stopping you from cycling, but if you could have managed to sit in a car, would you have been able to drive it? I can imagine that inner ear issues can sometimes affect vision too as my wife suffered from positional vertigo for a while and I could see her eyes flicking rapidly when she was getting dizzy. (I did find a helpful YouTube video about a sequence of positions to put the sufferer through which basically helps to remove the otoliths from the ear canal).
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoIn my case, it was a brain tumor. Took a bit more than Lotus Position. It all came out OK, in the end, but it was touch-and-go for a while.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoOuch! Not quite a Lotus Position, but I used the Epley Maneuver on her which immediately lessened her symptoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
- robocat 1y agoWhen the vertigo is bad, you can't even go as a passenger in the car because the movement is literally sickening. Even driving with mild vertigo could be difficult because you want to restrict your head movement. Source: my dad gets Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoI'd recommend him trying the Epley Maneouvre as it's quick and easy to do (needs someone to help though) and is unlikely to make anything worse.
- robocat 1y agoThanks. I've tried to encourage him to learn it. He's stubborn and isn't interested. He's had physio do it when he was hospitalized... He's mentally sharp, and has a science background, but nope!
- asadotzler 1y agovestibular system
- vel0city 1y agoThere are more than three senses.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoYes and they're not really of much use in driving safely unless you're referring to some spidey-sense of danger.
- tombert 1y agoI am not 100% sure which “sense” this would be, but when I drive I can “feel” the texture of the road and intuit roughly how much traction I have. I’m not special, every driver does this, consciously or not. I am not saying that you couldn’t do this with hardware, I am quite confident you could actually, but I am just saying that there are senses other than sight and sound at play here.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoWhilst that might feel re-assuring that you're getting tactile feedback, I doubt that there's many situations apart from driving on snow and ice that it's of much use. Fair enough if you're aiming for a lap record round a track, but otherwise you shouldn't be anywhere near the limit of traction of your tyres.
- tombert 1y agoSnow, ice, and rain are cases that still need to be accounted for so that really doesn’t dispel anything I said.
- vel0city 1y agoI'm using inertial senses from my inner ear. I feel the suspension through the seat. I feel feedback through the steering wheel. I can feel the g forces pulling on my body.
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