• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Find/make a recording the equivalent of lorem ipsum. Turn it on just loud enough for the system to hear.

    Also, play death metal at a low volume. Or Barney.

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      23 hours ago

      Death Metal at low volume… how?

      I’d honestly just put on some Scandinavian death metal and let the voice recognition software pick up gibberish English trying to anglify Norwegian and Swedish.

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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            11 hours ago

            They drive well enough, but less well. Why be hard of hearing if you don’t have to be? With no slight of the (big-D) Deaf intended.

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            18 hours ago

            Trucks are much more dangerous, having all senses available becomes much more important. There’s a reason why cars must have working horns

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              17 hours ago

              Not really.

              Here emergency vehicles only put their sirens on for a few seconds when they’re stuck behind some oblivious idiot who hasn’t seen them coming and pulled over.

              How’s are rarely used to alert you to something you need to be aware of.

              Even so, noise cancelling headphones suck at blocking that type of sound. It mitigates ongoing noises like engine sound, but not something with changing pitch like a horn or siren.

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                17 hours ago

                Horns are ABSOLUTELY used to alert you to something you need to be aware and prevent accidents all the time. Just because assholes like to misuse them doesn’t change the reasoning on why they are required on all vehicles.

                Sirens are specifically useful when you are around a blind corner and an emergency vehicle is coming toward you. Or when you otherwise don’t have line of sight with the stoving lights.

                Earplugs don’t descriminate they just dull your senses. Noise canceling headphones are to a lesser extent a handicap.

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                  16 hours ago

                  I’ve been driving for 25 years.

                  I honestly can’t remember a time when a horn has alerted me to something I needed to be aware of.

                  Sirens here definitely aren’t used in that way. Besides which you can see the stroving lights reflecting off things. You don’t need line of sight.

                  If headphones were such an impediment to safe driving they would be illegal. They’re not.