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New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars

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Re: New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars

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2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #134
udfalkso wrote: post #4

One egregiously loud motorcycle rolling through manhattan can be a nuisance to literally millions of people. This is unreasonable and a ticketing system like this makes a ton of sense. Police enforcement could probably solve the issue just as effectively. Cops ignore loud honking and loud cars when its right in front of them. If they would just stop ignoring such things the frequency would surely go down as well.

I moved to the city for peace and quiet! I didn't know there would be so many people around!

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Post by mikestew »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #105
e40 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a freeway about a mile from my house. Summer nights with the windows open, I can easily be awakened by a very loud motorcycle. The freeway is raised and I'm in a sort of canyon (no line of sight to freeway, though!!). Maybe the acoustics are just perfect for my bedroom, but I doubt it's just me. There are probably a million people within earshot of this noise. Lest people think I'm a motorcycle hater: I owned…

Owned four Harleys, like you, mine were stock, quiet. People are surprised to find out Harleys sound almost like sewing machines when they are stock. Almost.

On the rare occasion that I hear a HD with stock exhaust, it usually turns my head with me asking, "damn, what's that sweet-sounding thing?" Sadly, they're mostly owned by chuckleheads who fuck it up with open pipes.

Re: New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars

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Post by Gigachad »

valenaut wrote: post #107
2arrs2ells wrote: post #61

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Gas powered leaf blowers are horrible - noise and air pollution. Electric ones aren't bad.

It's still a lot of energy to push leaves around for no good reason. But yes, much better than gas.

It’s not a whole lot of energy really. They run for ages on tiny little batteries.

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Post by kelnos »

someguydave wrote: post #193
throwaway984393 wrote: post #147

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Well as long as only 13 innocent unarmed people were unloaded on by law enforcement everything is fine

1. unarmed does not mean they were not a threat or innocent 2. No human endeavor is perfect. I am willing to accept some tragic mistakes in exchange for the prevention of crimes and the dissuasion of criminals.

> I am willing to accept some tragic mistakes in exchange for the prevention of crimes and the dissuasion of criminals.

I mostly agree with this, but there needs to be an effort to hold people accountable when mistakes are made, and to change processes to help ensure that these mistakes don't happen again, or at least happen less often. Police departments across the US seem near-violently resistant to this.

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Post by acid__ »

treesknees wrote: post #33

>this new system uses a strategically placed sound meter to record decibel levels on the road, matching it to a license plate using a camera. Are there more details as to how this works and how it prevents false positives? Would the rumble or crack of thunder and lightning trigger a microphone to incorrectly mark a vehicle as loud? Or are there algorithms processing the recorded sound beyond just pure dB/volume to de…

One option could be to use an array of microphones to detect the source of the loud noise

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Post by seneca »

kevinh wrote: post #245
seneca wrote: post #226

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What inside knowledge do you have that indicates it's not true? You can't just assume something is false because it contradicts what you want to be true.

What knowledge do you have that it is true other than a thirdhand account by someone on a web forum?

None, that's why I haven't made a statement claiming it's true or not, unlike the person I'm responding to. That's what you do when you have no information.

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Post by prions »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #134
udfalkso wrote: post #4

One egregiously loud motorcycle rolling through manhattan can be a nuisance to literally millions of people. This is unreasonable and a ticketing system like this makes a ton of sense. Police enforcement could probably solve the issue just as effectively. Cops ignore loud honking and loud cars when its right in front of them. If they would just stop ignoring such things the frequency would surely go down as well.

I moved to the city for peace and quiet! I didn't know there would be so many people around!

I'll write a charitable response to your flippant comment.

Living in a city has more noise than outside of cities, but that doesn't mean that people deserve to be exposed to noise levels that are harmful to their health. This also ignores people who are born in the city, and can't leave it for various reasons.

Various laws on noise levels have been laws in NYC for decades at this point because it's a public health and quality of life problem.

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