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Is it dangerous to use headphones with active noise cancelling while driving? (piefed.social)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by cloudless@piefed.social to c/ask@piefed.social
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Edit: Thanks everyone. I’ve heard your comments loud and clear. I will not wear headphones while driving.

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[–] lobo@lemmy.world -4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

People acting like noise canceling headphones block your hearing. Thats only if you listen to something on insane volume.

When I drive on highway I always have either earplugs or headphones, it mitigats wheel hum and wind noise. No way it blocks sirens, honking or even conversations.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

If you want to pretend to yourself that headphones have no impact on your hearing, you can do that. But to try it in the comment section here, I'm not sure why you thought no one would call you out on basic dishonesty.

To be clear, we're not talking about blocking noise. We're talking about reducing noise.