Legality aside, how are headphones worse than radio? If you can hear sirens, car horns and whatever else you need, why does it matter if the music comes from a radio speaker or headphones? Keep in mind, some countries use the same reasoning for cars and bikes, and I’d rather not annoy everyone with drive-by beats.
Also, I imagine headphones in cars is more common if you are young and your car is old.
Ok, when I drive with my headphones at a volume that I can still hear my bicycle chain rattling, I’m not automatically worse than someone with their car radio so loud I can hear it 100m behind them. So I don’t think laws that prohibit headphones specifically are necessary, let it be managed by the same laws that bind drivers to keep their radios at a sane level.
But point taken that some governments classify any headphones as distracting, I suspect because one can generally identify radios that are too loud, headphones that are too loud are harder for police to prove.
Legality aside, how are headphones worse than radio? If you can hear sirens, car horns and whatever else you need, why does it matter if the music comes from a radio speaker or headphones? Keep in mind, some countries use the same reasoning for cars and bikes, and I’d rather not annoy everyone with drive-by beats.
Also, I imagine headphones in cars is more common if you are young and your car is old.
That “if” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. Also it’s technically illegal in India, where this was taken
Ok, when I drive with my headphones at a volume that I can still hear my bicycle chain rattling, I’m not automatically worse than someone with their car radio so loud I can hear it 100m behind them. So I don’t think laws that prohibit headphones specifically are necessary, let it be managed by the same laws that bind drivers to keep their radios at a sane level.
But point taken that some governments classify any headphones as distracting, I suspect because one can generally identify radios that are too loud, headphones that are too loud are harder for police to prove.