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How about the pedestrians and people eating outside at restaurants? Or people in old houses with poor insulation and single paned windows?

However, I don’t like the idea of automatically ticketing people with technology devices alone despite the obnoxiously loud noise pollution from these vehicles. Police can easily hear these vehicles and pull them over for a violation.



My point (I may not have explained it well) was that a motorcycle's loud exhaust isn't saving the rider's life from me, since I can't hear it. (I'm not going to run over motorcyclists in general, though). It really sucks for those on the outside who have to deal with it. If there was automatic ticketing, I would hope there's a high burden of proof. I'm not exactly sure what that would look like.


> ”Police can easily hear these vehicles and pull them over for a violation.”

In practice this doesn’t happen, however, at least here in the UK.

Police are not issued with equipment to measure noise levels, and on a busy road it can be difficult to identify (provably and conclusively) which vehicles are making the noise.

Which is exactly why technology like these “noise cameras” are needed!


> In practice this doesn’t happen, however, at least here in the UK

Especially in the nice areas of London you could probably drive for years without numberplates and nobody would ever stop you.


It very much _does_ happen in the UK, though rarer than it ought.

I've even seen the police crack out light meters to fine boy racers with overly tinted windows.




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