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2.3K views 20 replies 14 participants last post by  torqueit  
#1 ·
I've heard it all now. The government is experimenting with noise cameras !
You just can't enjoy yourself anymore lol.
 
#6 ·
It’s not just pops and bangs tw*ts sadly
 
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#11 ·
Frankly excellent news.
It's only a nanny state because the small minority of such epic juvenile tossers who are unable to control their own pathetic behaviour.
If you're the kind of prick who tunes their car / exhaust and then rev the nuts out of your engine in residential areas at silly o'clock you deserve everything coming to you.
 
#12 ·
Running a full 3" turbo back scorpion and not bothered by this in the slightest. It's a good quality exhaust system, not stupidly loud, and doesn't sound like a donkey f4rting it's last on overrun. I just need to make sure I don't attract attention, such as driving like a p1553d off teenager outside a primary school, or racing around a housing estate at 3am and I'll be fine.
 
#16 · (Edited)
California and New York, two of the worst places for trying to regulate how you live, have just started programs like this.

 
#17 ·
Cant see these being on every street corner, just around the local shop where the yobs hang out with a 1.2 corsa with an over sized exhaust. From my understanding on the law noise allowed from the exhaust is mostly down to type car/engine it is and what you expect from it. There no actual DB from what I have read... unless this has now changed though because I dont keep on on noise related laws or the ever increasing Gretta Thumburgs which have popped out of nowhere.
 
#20 ·
This is an accidental byproduct of an other countrywide upgrade that the government now realise they have, and are thinking up uses for.

You've probably all seen the new LED streetlights going in all over the place. Well, inside the lumiere on top of the pole, there's a lot more than a bunch of LEDs. There's a GPS transducer, light sensor, microphone and permanent data link to the control centre of the utility responsible for managing the light. The microphone was a US requirement to be able to detect and triangulate gun shot sounds to enable speedier deployment of the emergency services to a potential shooting.

Roll this forward and start thinking laterally, and you can probably come up with all sorts of uses for a connected microphone on every street corner, monitoring noisy exhausts included.