Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars

mackwinston@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Mex@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  some are a shit-ton louder than others though

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  • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and the difference is personal opinion. We had anti-noise bylaw removed because of 2 factors, the limit was too high for most people (96DB) and because it’s really difficult and expensive to monitor. They need special noise detectors and they don’t have lots of them so they only used them in areas where most people complain and it resulted in zero change while increasing costs.

    My motorcycle is loud. Louder than any stock car but it’s far from 96DB yet it’s also quieter than a lawn mower, or a weed whacker, or a plane so what do you about those noises?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s an easy fix. Vehicles are whatever volume they are from the factory. Then just ban modifying them in any way to become louder.

      An absolute decibel limit doesn’t need to exist. You’re just not allowed to deliberately increase the volume of your vehicle above what it’s natural level is.

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      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Amen. Steel legal shouldn’t include performance enhancements - get a track car and go at it where there’s a suitable environment!

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      • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If there was an easy fix, they would have done it. Loud is subjective so you need to set a baseline and you need decibel numbers for that.

        Just banning modifying exhausts is short-sighted because think of all the companies out there making custom exhausts that aren’t super loud.

        You’re applying kid logic to an adult problem.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sod off back to fuckcars, will you?

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