These should be placed along every major artery in NYC with enormous fines for violators. If people want to behave like selfish children they should be treated as such.
New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars
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#12Cars that make a lot of noise are one in 10,000 where I live. Motorcycles every second one.
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#13I find towns and cities to be unbearably noisy now and almost all of that noise is from cars and other motor vehicles. Certain people, of course, need to stand out from the crowd and have responded by making even more noise. Some of those cars and motorbikes are obnoxiously loud, but I think something like the top 20% are louder than they have to be. It needs to stop. There are studies showing the bad effects of noise pollution on people's health. Electric cars should reduce the overall noise level but the outliers definitely need to be targeted.
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#14Can we start using something like this with light meters to ticket obnoxious LED beams that have not been properly retrofitted into older cars?
It's extremely obvious which cars these are when you're driving at night. That these people are endangering dozens of other cars on the road is lunacy.
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#15Good. Now target Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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#16Great news, and I hope this catches on elsewhere. Our acoustic environment is a commons, and a particularly fragile one at that. Quiet surroundings are a boon to health and happiness, a fact that is not only immediately obvious to anyone with ears and a nervous system but also proven by scientific studies. However it can be destroyed so easily by one a-hole to the detriment of all. It's about time we start protecting it.
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#17Good. I look forward to this enforcement in my city. I currently live against a major road. During the night, the traffic noise isn’t disturbing, except for about one vehicle in a thousand. And that motorcycle wakes me at 3am. For weeks on end. My neighbor’s kid’s motorcycle. On his way to work at 3am, has to gun it when turning out of the neighborhood, waking everyone. These are neighbors who had shot their next doo…
> These are neighbors who had shot their next door neighbor’s cat Jesus. At that point I'd go up to questionably legal methods to get these fuckers some justice. People who intentionally murder cats deserve everything that's coming for them.
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#18On the one hand, I think red light cameras and automated speed traps are unconstitutional and there have been shady companies caught fixing them. I hate the idea of putting super sensitive microphones in public spaces and connecting them directly to police departments.
But on the other hand, fuck loud cars and motorcycles, they are a menace to society, and they are the only thing that makes my blood boil, when they wake me up at 2am.
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#19Kind of off topic. But we need to find a way to reduce the noise of squeaking subway trains.
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#20YES. I have lived on some incredibly busy streets in New York. Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.