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Virginia does not allow drivers to use headphones.

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WaTaGuMp said:
It is here in California. I still use mine for cycling though, never driving.
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Cycling with headphones seems risky to me. Not being able to hear a car approaching from behind specifically would scare me. We don't have many totally silent cars where I live, though, that could possibly render this point moot.
 
torpid said:
Cycling with headphones seems risky to me. Not being able to hear a car approaching from behind specifically would scare me. We don't have many totally silent cars where I live, though, that could possibly render this point moot.
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Of course, if you were deaf, you would certainly never hear any car approaching. Ever.
 
shortylickens said:
Of course, if you were deaf, you would certainly never hear any car approaching. Ever.
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True. I suppose you'd need some of those rather silly looking mirrors that attach to your helmet or handlebars. Which is also, I guess, a means to safely ride your bike with headphones. Somehow I doubt that's what is going on though.
 
torpid said:
Cycling with headphones seems risky to me. Not being able to hear a car approaching from behind specifically would scare me. We don't have many totally silent cars where I live, though, that could possibly render this point moot.
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But I could take my bike, start pushing it on the sidewalk and then be allowed to wear them.
 
WaTaGuMp said:
But I could take my bike, start pushing it on the sidewalk and then be allowed to wear them.
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Well, depending on where you live, you could also just cycle on the sidewalk. It's legal here as long as the sidewalk isn't directly in front of a building entrance.
 
torpid said:
Well, depending on where you live, you could also just cycle on the sidewalk. It's legal here as long as the sidewalk isn't directly in front of a building entrance.
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Not sure what the law is about being on the sidewalk, I don't ride on it because of pedestrians. Plus my route has bike lanes, I deal with enough people in cars, last thing I want is to be on the sidewalk and cars pulling out of shopping centers and not seeing me.
 
highland145 said:
Why would it be illegal? Blasting the stereo has the same effect.


Damned commies.
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Yes and no, headphones are worse because they tend to isolate (even turned up, sirens still tend to be noticeable when listening to a car speaker system, but headphones will naturally diminish outside noise even if you don't have anything playing on them) and they also can hamper your ability to physically keep aware of your surroundings depending on what headphones you have on.

Plus, pretty sure most places have noise ordinance laws too.

For the most part unless you're an idiot driving with big full size headphones on, I doubt you'd ever get pulled over for it (unless you were also doing something else stupid, or happened to be non-white). It'd be an extra infraction they can tack on top of whatever you did to warrant being pulled over.

Its not like headphones are the problem with people not noticing or not impeding the progress of emergency vehicles.
 
FerrelGeek said:
But they let people who act like children drive. 'I have the RIGHT to drive in the left lane and go 10 mph below the speed limit! How dare you tap your horn to tell me to speed up or get in the right lane! I'll show you!!! I'll go 15 mph below the speed limit and brake check every 10 seconds! FU!'
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I followed someone like this the other day. I backed off and another car got in my place eventually riding their ass (a 2 lane 55mph highway). The guy decides to match speeds with the vehicle in the right lane so nobody could pass. The follower honked him straight down the highway - was pretty funny.

Just makes you want to punch the lead car guy in the face. With a hammer. I bet their vigilante mentality changes when they're not in a moving steel cage.
 
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