# Why would some countries continue to ban drivers with disabilities? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375 "2025-08-08T23:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/41 "2025-08-14T21:00:40Z")
Where’s your other hand? On the shift lever? ---
**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/42 "2025-08-14T21:02:24Z")
> [@db4690](#): > > Where’s your other hand? > > On the shift lever? Actually, not always. I drive mostly with my right hand and the left hand is placed on the driver’s door panel to help my body feel securely positioned. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/43 "2025-08-14T21:18:51Z")
My gosh you guys. That was a joke. Obviously someone using binocs to see to drive is a hazard but she would have had to hold them up with one hand, thus only allowing one hand to drive. I obviously ignored the log, and mentioned the sliver of on3 handed steering. A joke son. Get it? I’m 😁 😀 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/44 "2025-08-14T22:04:26Z")
> [@bing](#): > > A joke son. Get it? ![looney-toons-cartoon-collectible_1_0814e5fa5887e0e9134649792959f16b](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/5/591958b62966e60eeaf80bdc2bca0ddf380a6d1f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/45 "2025-08-15T15:21:58Z")
> [@Clueless33](#): > > I feel more in control with just one hand on the wheels. You are not, just like holding your breath will allow you to live longer by not breathing in air pollution… ---
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/46 "2025-08-15T15:48:02Z")
> [@Clueless33](#): > > I drive mostly with my right hand and the left hand is placed on the driver’s door panel to help my body feel securely positioned. In the old days before mandatory seatbelts, parents usually allowed children to ride in the front seat. If they had to slam the brakes on, the parents instinctively threw their arm up in front to front of the kids to protect them from slamming into the dash or being thrown through the windshield… Not going to happen. The kids still slammed into the dash or windshield and the parents had less control of the vehicle… ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/47 "2025-08-15T16:21:21Z")
> [@LoudThunder](#): > > If they had to slam the brakes on, the parents instinctively threw their arm up in front to front of the kids to protect them from slamming into the dash or being thrown through the windshield… Not going to happen. The kids still slammed into the dash or windshield and the parents had less control of the vehicle… Yup! One of the mags that I read in the '50s (Popular Science? Popular Mechanics? Mechanix Illustrated?) published an interview with Buick’s Chief Engineer, shortly after Ford began advertising optional lap belts. The Chief Engineer stated that, when he drove with his Grandson (sans belts, of course… ) if he “thought that a collision was imminent”, he would shout “BRACE!”, which was the signal for the child to place his hands on the dashboard, and thus “seatbelts are not necessary”. 😏 I have to wonder whether he was merely echoing GM’s company line, or whether this “engineer” had never learned about Inertia, via Newton’s Laws of Motion. ---
**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/48 "2025-08-15T23:28:25Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > I have to wonder whether he was merely echoing GM’s company line, or whether this “engineer” had never learned about Inertia, via Newton’s Laws of Motion. Back in the '70s the Air Force had a machine like in the video and the Base Safety Office used a setup like this and the “sled” rolled forward at only 5-mph and then it stopped like in the video… Ours was designed a bit differently to demonstrate the futility of protecting yourself without a seatbelt. Ours had a “Soft Dash and Windshield” installed on it and you rolled forward with no seatbelt the first time to show that you cannot stop yourself from “crashing” into the dash and windshield. And they also provided two life sized dolls to represent both a baby in your arms and a child sitting in your lap… [https://youtu.be/Fh9y3Ubn2H8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh9y3Ubn2H8) In all cases, the baby and child were “crushed” between the adult and the “dash” without the seatbelt. At that time, the Air Force was also mandating the mandatory use of seatbelts in all military vehicles and in our private vehicles while driving on base… Years later, the AF mandated seat belt use in our private vehicles while driving off-base too. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/49 "2025-08-16T21:25:59Z")
I remember going out to talk to the mail delivery guy about something and he motioned to me that he was deaf and couldn’t hear a word I was saying. If it’s good enough for the post office . . . ---
**Author:** ![Clueless33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Clueless33](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Clueless33)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375/50 "2025-08-16T22:09:28Z")
> [@bing](#): > > I remember going out to talk to the mail delivery guy about something and he motioned to me that he was deaf and couldn’t hear a word I was saying. If it’s good enough for the post office . . . My friend who is deaf was a post office delivery driver. Many of us deafies are incredible cool people ( only if Volvo knew ). We love to engage with the hearing world and hearing people find us to be cool folks, too. Majority of my deaf friends work for IMB. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/why-would-some-countries-continue-to-ban-drivers-with-disabilities/201375.md?page=2)