27400. A person operating a motor vehicle or bicycle may not wear a headset covering, or earplugs in, both ears. This prohibition does not apply to any of the following:
[a] A person operating authorized emergency vehicles, as defined in Section 165.
A person engaged in the operation of either special construction equipment or equipment for use in the maintenance of any highway.
[c] A person engaged in the operation of refuse collection equipment who is wearing a safety headset or safety earplugs.
[d] A person wearing personal hearing protectors in the form of earplugs or molds that are specifically designed to attenuate injurious noise levels. The plugs or molds shall be designed in a manner so as to not inhibit the wearer's ability to hear a siren or horn from an emergency vehicle or a horn from another motor vehicle.
[e] A person using a prosthetic device that aids the hard of hearing.
Amended Sec. 45, Ch. 594, Stats. 2003. Effective January 1, 2004.
Hopefully our trusty Bombay has it connected to the car stereos!
I just don't drive very often to places if I don't need to. I used to if I felt hungry drive to Wendy's but not anymore, I just find something to eat here at home.