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Seems like one compromise would be that they can only be used during a few-hour period every other week or so. So you'd only get the noise in a predictable window.
Why, quiet but capable alternatives exist. Let's stop with all this outdated combustion technology.
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Switzerland has noise ordnances, and like other traffic related offenses they are aggressively enforced. Aftermarket mods, revving your engine, or late shifting can net you a cool 5 figures fine.
Sadly, it's barely enforced.
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Making something illegal and actually enforcing it are two very different things though. Most countries in the world have a cap on noise levels your vehicle can make, most don't do much to enforce it outside of yearly checkups.
In most parts of Switzerland there is no yearly checkup, but every 2 years or whenever you get the invite (waited 3 years once). However police is actively monitoring noise levels in some places, picking out the cars and remove them from the streets. Just last weekend my closest city checked 15 and removed about half of these cars in one evening.
for what purpose, to make it someone else's problem and then they can blow them back?
Did they ban car alarms?
Cool, now do loud motorbikes in cities. Those things, several times louder than cars, should be illegal anywhere but on isolated highways.
100000% Agree. Here in Germany, I'm convinced the Police simply don't care about motorcycles with modified mufflers. The sound is deafening. In the last decade the noise has gotten worse and worse. Once one of those small penis motorcycle owners saw that I was covering my three year old child's ears as he passed by, and only then did he put his bike into neutral and walked it by us.
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In the US, at least, it doesn't help that almost everyone using leaf blowers are using the cheap, loud, stinky two cycle motor abominations. Those leaf blowers put more garbage into the air than a car or pickup truck. They're that bad.
In Zürich, the worst offender is the outdated two cycle moped. Sadly, not much is being done about it because of the cult and retro status of these things.
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Why, quiet but capable alternatives exist. Let's stop with all this outdated combustion technology.
You have to compromise on something to get change through. Realistically this problem will fix itself when electric blowers take over that can be used at any time and realistically work better now.