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Blind Driving
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A blind (or blindfolded) person is driving a vehicle (usually a car). This can happen for a number of reasons. The blind person may be in a dire situation and there is no one else around who can drive them to safety. Or they could be showing off their skills. Or they may be doing it for the thrill. Or they may not even realise that they're blind. In most cases, there's someone who can see the way who gives them directions, either via telephone/walkie-talkie or from inside the vehicle itself. In the latter case, hilarity often ensues from the passenger's panicked reactions. A subtrope of Are You Sure You Can Drive This Thing? Frequently overlaps with Drives Like Crazy, though most of the perpetrators of that trope don't have this trope as an excuse. See Driver Faces Passenger for drivers who just don't watch the road. In Real Life, driving in traffic blinded (even temporarily as by sunlight or vision being blocked by a muddy or broken windshield or dense fog) is a very common cause of accidents (as in, almost every year, there are multi-car pileup crashes resulting from blizzards, dense fog, or dust storms — if you hear of a crash involving more than ten cars, it's almost certainly due to the drivers not being able to see the road ahead). While being guided can work (see below), that depends on your guide passenger being a capable, sober driver himself or herself, and is only good for when dazzled by sunlight or lights. The magician's blindfolded driving trick is under Real Life in Blindfolded Vision. |
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In Riget - in an ambulance, against the traffic, with orderlies and med students placing bets on the outcome. | |
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On Curfew, pregnant Faith sets a trap for the other racers and takes out a few. When Team Awesome comes upon it, El Capitano drives them through while wearing a sleeping mask. ("I drive better this way.") He drives through and manages to avoid hitting the other cars. (He doesn't have to worry about Faith shooting at him because she's gone into labor.) After he makes it through, Joker Jones compliments him on following his instincts. | |
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Tested by MythBusters and confirmed, as people have tried this in real life. Just make sure the person giving directions isn't drunk, because then the driver will drive as if he/she were also drunk. | |
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Iron Lung has the Player Character placed in a submersible in an ocean of blood. Because the depths the capsule must reach are beyond what it's rated for, the window is sealed up, forcing you to navigate by a proximity detector and map coordinates. Your only hints as to what's outside are your ears and a black-and-white camera attached to the front. | |
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One Dilbert comic has the Pointy-Haired Boss driving to a meeting at a classified location. Because the location is so secret, everyone in the car - including the boss - is blindfolded. He mentions that this can get very noisy. | |
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The Truman Show: Invoked. When Truman comes across a bridge that runs over a body of water, he loses the confidence to continue as his wife tries to tell him to turn around. Truman pretends to ask for a comforting hand before he places her hand on the wheel as he accelerates blindly over the bridge. | |
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A variation occurs in Firebirds. When Preston has trouble using the Apache's monocular night vision display, his instructor's solution is to tape a toy periscope (and a pair of bright red panties) over his eyes and have him try to drive a Jeep. While he can technically see through the periscope, Preston has so little peripheral vision that he needs constant directions to keep from crashing. | |
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Tales of the Ketty Jay. In order to reach the secret Sky Pirate port of Retribution Falls, the crew of the Ketty Jay have to blind-fly their Cool Airship through mist-shrouded ravines using a map and a Magic Compass that they've stolen from a rival with no idea of how to use the latter. And then there's the aerial minefield and the fumes that cause anyone not wearing a breathing mask to hallucinate. | |
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Bird Box involves monsters who drive insane anyone who looks at them. A group of survivors have to leave their house to get supplies from the supermarket, so they paint over the windows of a car and navigate using the satnav and parking proximity detectors. | |
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In Delirious, Jack blindfolds himself to play "a little game called 'Trust'." He drives at high speed while Laura frantically warns him about upcoming threats. They make out fine. Later, Laura blindfolds Dennis to do the same. It doesn't go so well. | |
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Blind Fury. When the only other eligible adult breaks her glasses, the Blind Weaponmaster protagonist gets behind the wheel to escape some bad guys, while taking instructions from a kid. | |
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Top Gear (US) has this in the second episode. They held a challenge to see who could drift better: Adam, Rutledge, or a blind man coached by Tanner. The blind man and Tanner won. | |
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Chowder once has a Magoo-esque character driving across the city, with police giving chase, and crashing into Mung Daal's kitchen, mistaking it for his home. | |
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Woozie in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a version — he's really good at racing around designed tracks (like the race where CJ first meets him), but regular driving tends eat up a lot of time (his right-hand man, after CJ asked where Woozie was, said that he insisted on driving himself. "Could be anywhere.") | |
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In Sneakers, Whistler, who is blind, has to drive a truck for a small distance, following directions via walkie-talkie. | |
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In Drake & Josh after Helen gets laser eye surgery, she arrives at the theater and gives the keys to Josh. | |
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In Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Ricky's dad makes him drive while blindfolded. It doesn't go well. | |
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In See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Wally, who is blind, does this, following Dave's directions. | |
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Naturally, this happens to Mr. Magoo every time he goes driving. In "Magoo's Puddle Jumper" he manages to drive his car into the ocean but luckily for him, the car is watertight. | |
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Spy Hard has a scene spoofing Speed in which Ray Charles is driving the bus. | |
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In The Boondocks, Stinkmeaner is blind and such an asshole that he drives himself and doesn't care what he crashes into. | |
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In the comic book series Top 10 there's a blind taxi driver that steers by fate. He and his passengers always arrive where they need to be, but other people in the way... not so much. | |
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In Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters, the Gray Sisters do this. It would have been creepy enough even if they didn't Drive Like Crazy. | |
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Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway adds Avatar's Toph Beifong, a blind earthbender who 'sees' by sensing vibrations in the ground with her feet, to its roster of drivers. Exactly how she drives when her feet aren't touching the ground goes completely unexplained. This is actually lampshaded by one of her losing quotes: | |
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A variation in The Hunt for Red October when the eponymous submarine dodges potential pursuers by navigating at high speed a series of undersea canyons that the Soviet Navy have extensively surveyed. | |
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In Le cœur a ses raisons, a (temporarily) blind Brett drives a car, screaming to bystanders to get out of the way and agitating his white cane out of the window just. It is as hilarious as it sounds. | |
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In Nerve, Ian is dared to ride his motorbike through the city blindfolded at 60 mph, using Vee to steer his body. The blindfolding is done by giving him a crash helmet with he visor completely covered in stickers. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob has to learn a driving course blindfolded as part of a Drill Sergeant Nasty's Imposed Handicap Training from Hell. Unfortunately, he can't drive without being blindfolded afterwards. In an earlier episode SpongeBob gets directions from Patrick over walkie-talkie in order to pass his driving test — not blindfolded, however. |
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During the early days of Justice Society of America, Dr. Mid-Nite was sometimes shown to drive the car. While Mid-Nite can technically see due to a special visor that plays off the fact that he can only see in total darkness, there's no way he'd ever get a proper license. | |
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In Star Wars Rebels, Kanan Jarrus can pilot a speeder bike after being blinded, courtesy of the Force. | |
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Top Gear: Season 5, episode 6 features Jeremy Clarkson coaching Billy Baxter, a blind veteran of the British Royal Horse Artillery, around the track in the Suzuki Liana to prove that Richard Whiteley (who held the record for the slowest lap at the time) really is a bad driver. The blind man went a full four seconds faster. The post-apocalypse episode has a challenge where the hosts have to navigate their way from point A to point B using only their GPS, as the car's windows were blacked out. Among other things, they ended up going right through a chain-link fence at one point. |
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An early episode of Family Guy opened with a blindfolded Peter gushing about how he couldn't wait for his birthday party. Lois tells him to take off the blindfold from off-screen and he protests that it would ruin the surprise. It then pans out to reveal that he's the one driving. | |
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Happens twice in The Mentalist, both times by the title character. The first time he is temporarily blind and guided by Grace in the passenger seat, while the second time he is blindfolded and guided by the unconscious reactions of Walter Mashburn in the passenger seat. Surprisingly, he fares much better in the latter case. | |
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One episode of MacGyver (1985) featured Mac's hands having been injured and Pete being temporarily blinded. So they cooperate to escape from a sticky situation with Pete's hands on the wheel and Mac telling him where to go. (This was before actor Dana Eclar actually went blind, and the character Pete Thornton did as well.) | |
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In Scent of a Woman, the blind protagonist does this at top speed, following directions from his terrified young friend in the passenger seat. And when he is pulled over, he talks his way out of a ticket with the cop never realizing his blindness. | |
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Gravity Falls: This gem (for context, the twins are both blindfolded in the back of Stan's car): | |
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Subverted in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Geordi, the helmsman for that season, is in fact blind by birth, but he uses assistive technology that gives him a form of vision (one that is in some ways better — at least in the sense of greater visual abilities — than natural vision), so he's not actually flying the ship without sight. | |
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