Maybe next they can introduce these in Sweden, to deal with the eurodanceraggare and loud-tailpipe dickheads that plague the roads.
A couple hundred meters away from me, there’s a piece of a two-lane two-lane road that has no traffic lights for a little over 1 km and has the priority of way, too - meaning that at night, you can get a somewhat high speed over there for a little while without leaving the city limits.
There’s only a few bikers in my city, but holy shit do they make “good” use of the opportunity in summer. I really wish we also had this kind of cameras out there, because the noise from just one is insane, especially at dead of night, and sometimes they do this in packs.
The best part is that it never lasts once - they just speed between the two traffic lights for a while, making a shit ton of that noise.
There are also buildings with windows overlooking that same road from a much closer distance than mine. Can’t really imagine what it’s like for people living there, even though we’re basically meters away from each other.
Wish we had that here. I could only afford a home on a busy street and the pollution is bad enough we it is without the modded trucks, muscle cars and motorcycle racing by at 1am. It’s illegal, but uninforced.
And that crying about being spied on… we already have cameras everywhere, actually having them used for something we want would be lovely. This and carpool lane enforcement, regulated in a way that can’t be abused (unlike red light and stop sign cameras, which local governments really abuse given lack of top down regulation).
I hear that the UK is trialling them in England an Wales, and London also had a trial run in 2021/22. Not sure what came of it, though.
Trouble is, the UK has no law limiting the noise a car can make. Only if there is e.g. a modified exhaust can the police even do something.
Anyone celebrating this is a fool.
This will lead to more spying on you, gives police even more power, and offers you only less noise for how many cars?
Trees, greenery and better housing design might solve the issue or make it not bad.
Self reporting, followed by an inspection to verify the car’s sound could solve this issue.
But more surveillance for another ones of the world surveillance states is so fucking stupid.
For me, it’s worth it. I live next to a forest already, far outside the city center, and there’s still assholes racing at night at the nearby street because it’s quite secluded and straight.
Also, I’m not worried about microphones on busy streets. It’s a public space already, which affects the content of my speech already. Microphones at home should be much more important for anyone worried about privacy.
Great to see! I really hope more cities will follow suit to deal with this problem as well.
