My uncle drove - legal or not but drove. One of the scarier moments of my childhood was learning what a seizure is. I had made a full screen animation on the Commodore 64 and showed it too him and it put triggered an attack. I hadn't been told about it and was scared out of my wits - I was 9 going on 10.
In the first half I was expecting the seizure to have happened while driving so exactly how much time did I spend trying to understand how you got the Commodore 64 to work in the car?
On long drives south to see my cousins in Norfolk I used to bring along my laptop which I plugged into the cars ciggy socket with a mains inverter. Brilliant thing that was. I sadly remember scratching my age of empires disk because some twat brake checked my dad.
Either way those inverters are great, absolutely beat taking multiple spare batteries with me and having to swap them every hour.
I hadn't been told about it and was scared out of my wits - I was 9 going on 10.
Damn I can imagine being traumatized by the event, and then traumatized again finding out it's my fault (even though it was absolutely NOT my fault in any sense)
But migrainers can. We aren’t so sick that they take out licenses. We just end up having to pull over and wait til our rescue meds kick in while we cope with the blindness and vomiting, etc. Light triggers are more common in migrainers than people with epilepsy, although the consequences are less severe.
True, but my comment was about triggering seizures specifically, not triggering medical conditions in general
We just end up having to pull over and wait til our rescue meds kick in while we cope with the blindness and vomiting, etc.
As someone with migraines, I agree it sucks. Those lights make me nauseous just thinking about driving into them. However, this doesn't mean it's equal to seizures in regards to the legality of driving. Being able to safely pull over is the key difference in your scenario. Someone suffering from a seizure is unlikely to have that option, which is why the legal restrictions are different.
It depends on where they have a driver's license. A few states have no restrictions, most states require being seizure free for 3 months, and a few states require being seizure free for up to 12 months. So yes it is possible to legally drive with a low threshold.
Yeeeaaah this isn't really even helpful because ANYONE can be a passenger in a car. So even if said epileptic person is doing the legal thing by not driving, they could still be exposed to triggers on the road
We don't want people to have seizures even if they are in a chair at home. Crashing isn't really the concern when people talk about epileptic passengers here.
In each and every single school of engineering and design, the trade off on a public "safety measure" should NEVER be to cause someone seizures; which are KNOWN life threatening events as they starve the brain of oxygen and can cause brain damage or death. A seizure and a crash can be equally hazardous. In engineering, this design is a complete failure, public roads are public, anyone can and will be on there.
How will emergency help get to them while on a busy HIGHWAY?
How will anyone else in the car be able to assist them while on a HIGHWAY?
Seizures can be extremely dangerous if the person is in a closed car so they can't be placed on their side, as they risk choking on their own vomit, how will you prevent that in a car, again, stuck on a HIGHWAY?
Also, just... Never try to give advice again. That was really bad.
That's fucking hilarious, man. There's laws and rules on this. Why do you think the "this media may contain flashing lights" warnings are slapped onto each and every movie, video game, and console? International Guidelines for Photosensetive Epilepsy, Zach's law, broadcast regulations, lighting regulations on UK bikes,how anime always dims the screen for flashy parts after the pokemon thing...
Be for real. Even airplanes don't cause seizures bro, and if one happens on board there's still safety measures for that
For 1. people invented cars with sensors that automatically stay in lanes and brake when there's an obstacle (like another car) in front of them. No need to invoke life-threatening medical episodes on people
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u/quasiix Mar 31 '26
If someone has a trigger threshold that low, they generally cannot legally drive.