How do Deaf people drive? - Page 7

**Dixie** · 10-18-2010, 11:01 PM

I do know PCEMS is equipped so that when the ambulance is running hot and approaching an intersection with a radio frequency thingy the light will change to green and force all of the other lights to change to red so that ALL POVs must stop. These same intersections also have cameras that takes pictures of vehicles that run red lights.

Far as I know only 2 of the YCEMS units is also equipped with this radio frequency device that is mounted on the front of the unit box just below the mounted lights.

**Smithtr** · 10-18-2010, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by posts from hell

wow, we have that... but... never seen it flash.

yes I know of course I watch see flash light you are funny!!

deafgal001 · 10-18-2010, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by posts from hell

wow, we have that... but... never seen it flash.

I am not sure if all Emergency Vehicle Preemption have lights added to it as it could be just used only to change the stoplights for emergency vehicles. But the ones where I live does have a spotlight added to it. I see those everywhere too, but it seem like that not all of them have spotlights. Just the some of them.

**Smithtr** · 10-19-2010, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by deafgal001

I am not sure if all Emergency Vehicle Preemption have lights added to it as it could be just used only to change the stoplights for emergency vehicles. But the ones where I live does have a spotlight added to it. I see those everywhere too, but it seem like that not all of them have spotlights. Just the some of them.

Oh i see I understand. that is reason emergency police siren because you should be spotlight!? flashing

deafgal001 · 10-19-2010, 06:21 AM

Like this picture (notice the white spotlight?)

**Smithtr** · 10-19-2010, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by deafgal001

Like this picture (notice the white spotlight?)

yes I notice it yes I know really spotlight reason surprised! that is seems!! that is really pretty sound! that is right!

**KristinaB** · 10-19-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by AlleyCat

The thingy at the left of the signal flashes white.

I have seen that, but I thought it was a camera. We have all kinds of red-light cameras around here, I just assumed. Guess I should remember to assume anything.

**Smithtr** · 10-20-2010, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by KristinaB

I have seen that, but I thought it was a camera. We have all kinds of red-light cameras around here, I just assumed. Guess I should remember to assume anything.

i did see flash on light flashiing because hide camera caught to drive,don't see flash camera but I think so hide on caught but protect to crash drive worst! because reason concern about to increase crash because who fault! my opinion!

AlleyCat · 10-20-2010, 06:03 PM

No.Read carefully. What we are talking about here are not cameras, but a signaler to warn of emergency vehicles coming and to change the stoplights.

BecLak · 10-20-2010, 06:26 PM

One of the reasons I stopped using HAs was when I started driving. I found they amplified the sounds inside the car and I found it very distracting and that I couldn't concentrate on what was going on outside the car.

Anyone else experience that?

**KristinaB** · 10-21-2010, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by BecLak

One of the reasons I stopped using HAs was when I started driving. I found they amplified the sounds inside the car and I found it very distracting and that I couldn't concentrate on what was going on outside the car.

Anyone else experience that?

That was a big problem for me when I had my HA's. Also, since my family speaks loudly to begin with, I had the same problems at home. Now, I don't wear them and they would never help me anyway.

BecLak · 10-21-2010, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by KristinaB

That was a big problem for me when I had my HA's. Also, since my family speaks loudly to begin with, I had the same problems at home. Now, I don't wear them and they would never help me anyway.

KB, it seems we have a lot of similarities. I also don't wear HAs anymore due mainly to living in the tropics. Humidity is a killer for HAs causing increased problems of infections and chaffing, batteries etc (and also because I drive a lot and they are more irritating that a help) My family is also loud. Several visitors have commented that our house is LOUD

rraja · 10-30-2010, 04:55 PM

IIRC, they never tested hearing in my driver's test (although they did test vision). I would think that since it's legal for someone to drive with loud music on or while using their cell phone, it should also be OK for a deaf person to drive.

During the behind-the-wheel test, the examiner saw my CI and was OK with repeating himself a couple of times, though he still gave me a perfect score in the end

iavswn · 11-24-2010, 02:58 AM

I see hearing people looking away talking to a person behind them or next to them, looking down trying to find something, texting, eating, making calls, etc.. when driving. Is very, very scary; hearing people scare me.

iavswn · 11-24-2010, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by rraja

I would think that since it's legal for someone to drive with loud music on or while using their cell phone

Its not legal in this state, but people still do it. Cops don't enforce the laws concerning any of that either, which does not help.

iavswn · 11-24-2010, 03:05 AM

What about signing when driving?

deafbajagal · 11-24-2010, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by iavswn

I see hearing people looking away talking to a person behind them or next to them, looking down trying to find something, texting, eating, making calls, etc.. when driving. Is very, very scary; hearing people scare me.

lol

iavswn · 11-24-2010, 04:38 PM

Thanks

Speedy Hawk · 11-25-2010, 03:13 PM

My deaf friend signs while driving, one hand signing and other hand on wheel. Still focus on road. She got extra mirror to see me.

deafbajagal · 11-25-2010, 08:23 PM

My father STILL thinks I, as a deaf person, should not be driving. He did everything he could to prevent me from driving. He thinks it's so dangerous.

society's_child · 11-26-2010, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by iavswn

What about signing when driving?

Why not? I text and drive (yeah, i said it) and I'm not dead yet.

Grummer · 11-26-2010, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by deafbajagal

My father STILL thinks I, as a deaf person, should not be driving. He did everything he could to prevent me from driving. He thinks it's so dangerous.

now that is crazy

deafbajagal · 11-26-2010, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by society's_child

Why not? I text and drive (yeah, i said it) and I'm not dead yet.

I do, too. I refuse to give up texting and driving as long as hearing people are allowed to use the cell phone and drive.

Tousi · 11-26-2010, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by AlleyCat

No.Read carefully. What we are talking about here are not cameras, but a signaler to warn of emergency vehicles coming and to change the stoplights.

Not that I'd try it but I heard someone once say that if you flash your headlights really fast upon approaching an intersection that has one of these gizmos, the light should change for you.

**Banjo** · 11-26-2010, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tousi

Not that I'd try it but I heard someone once say that if you flash your headlights really fast upon approaching an intersection that has one of these gizmos, the light should change for you.

That's a myth. Emergency vehicles are equipped with Opticom lights. It's not possible to mimic it by just buying a strobe light from a party store.

So yes, it's not true.

deafgal001 · 11-26-2010, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by deafbajagal

I do, too. I refuse to give up texting and driving as long as hearing people are allowed to use the cell phone and drive.

I guess I should give up texting since cellphone is banned where i live. But that's not a problem since I don't text and drive anyway. One guy (hearing) I know swear up and down that that he can text without looking and drive at the same time. he doesn't think texting should be illegal.

AlleyCat · 11-26-2010, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tousi

Not that I'd try it but I heard someone once say that if you flash your headlights really fast upon approaching an intersection that has one of these gizmos, the light should change for you.

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Originally Posted by Banjo

That's a myth. Emergency vehicles are equipped with Opticom lights. It's not possible to mimic it by just buying a strobe light from a party store.

So yes, it's not true.

I heard the same about flashing your headlights really fast. But I suspect Banjo is right.

**Dixie** · 12-02-2010, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by deafbajagal

My father STILL thinks I, as a deaf person, should not be driving. He did everything he could to prevent me from driving. He thinks it's so dangerous.

So did my dad, I was 18 before I was allowed to drive by myself and even then it was during daylight hours only until I graduated.

webexplorer · 12-02-2010, 11:45 AM

Well, I thought that it is taking some pictures with flashes of our best cars that made computer traffic employees jealous.

Mr.TruBiz · 12-02-2010, 01:25 PM

It was once told to me how deaf people came about permitted to drive.
Deaf gentlemen in the early 1900's asked the dmv,if he could drive, the dmv said no! So he pleaded for a few days and finally got his wish to show the hearing "dmv driver inspector" he could pass the test.
As the inspector sat in the car, deaf man had bundle of newspaper and covered all the windows, front,back and side to side.
And then the deaf man jumped in the car with the inspector and the inspector wrote on pad and paper and said,"what are you doing, we cant see"?
Deaf man writes back,"exactly my point, what does this have to do with me being deaf"?

And thats all deaf community wrote!

10-18-2010, 11:01 PM	#181 (permalink)
Dixie May I be found in Him Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arkansas Posts: 13,266	I do know PCEMS is equipped so that when the ambulance is running hot and approaching an intersection with a radio frequency thingy the light will change to green and force all of the other lights to change to red so that ALL POVs must stop. These same intersections also have cameras that takes pictures of vehicles that run red lights. Far as I know only 2 of the YCEMS units is also equipped with this radio frequency device that is mounted on the front of the unit box just below the mounted lights. __________________ Oh, you will. It is all a dream and since matter cannot be created nor destroyed, the dreams must be real in all their myriad forms. -Beowulf This Delicate Thing God Has Made *The world is measured in peasants; smaller than a unicorn but, bigger than a tidbit!*

10-20-2010, 06:26 PM	#190 (permalink)
BecLak Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 2,116	Hearing Aids One of the reasons I stopped using HAs was when I started driving. I found they amplified the sounds inside the car and I found it very distracting and that I couldn't concentrate on what was going on outside the car. Anyone else experience that?

11-24-2010, 04:38 PM	#198 (permalink)
iavswn Banned Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Posts: 179	Thanks Last edited by iavswn; 11-25-2010 at 04:06 AM.

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10-19-2010, 06:21 AM	#185 (permalink)
deafgal001 Banned Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 2,542	Like this picture (notice the white spotlight?)

10-20-2010, 06:03 PM	#189 (permalink)
AlleyCat Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In my time zone Posts: 11,087	No.Read carefully. What we are talking about here are not cameras, but a signaler to warn of emergency vehicles coming and to change the stoplights.

10-30-2010, 04:55 PM	#193 (permalink)
rraja Registered User Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 76	IIRC, they never tested hearing in my driver's test (although they did test vision). I would think that since it's legal for someone to drive with loud music on or while using their cell phone, it should also be OK for a deaf person to drive. During the behind-the-wheel test, the examiner saw my CI and was OK with repeating himself a couple of times, though he still gave me a perfect score in the end

11-24-2010, 02:58 AM	#194 (permalink)
iavswn Banned Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Posts: 179	I see hearing people looking away talking to a person behind them or next to them, looking down trying to find something, texting, eating, making calls, etc.. when driving. Is very, very scary; hearing people scare me.

11-24-2010, 03:05 AM	#196 (permalink)
iavswn Banned Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Posts: 179	What about signing when driving?

11-25-2010, 03:13 PM	#199 (permalink)
Speedy Hawk Registered User Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: England Posts: 816	My deaf friend signs while driving, one hand signing and other hand on wheel. Still focus on road. She got extra mirror to see me.

11-25-2010, 08:23 PM	#200 (permalink)
deafbajagal Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: USA Posts: 5,171	My father STILL thinks I, as a deaf person, should not be driving. He did everything he could to prevent me from driving. He thinks it's so dangerous.

12-02-2010, 11:45 AM	#209 (permalink)
webexplorer Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New England Posts: 5,476	Well, I thought that it is taking some pictures with flashes of our best cars that made computer traffic employees jealous.

12-02-2010, 01:25 PM	#210 (permalink)
Mr.TruBiz Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1	It was once told to me how deaf people came about permitted to drive. Deaf gentlemen in the early 1900's asked the dmv,if he could drive, the dmv said no! So he pleaded for a few days and finally got his wish to show the hearing "dmv driver inspector" he could pass the test. As the inspector sat in the car, deaf man had bundle of newspaper and covered all the windows, front,back and side to side. And then the deaf man jumped in the car with the inspector and the inspector wrote on pad and paper and said,"what are you doing, we cant see"? Deaf man writes back,"exactly my point, what does this have to do with me being deaf"? And thats all deaf community wrote!