Another brick in the wall, Loudly?

[Detective D]

I wonder how exactly the camera thing can determine where and how loud the noise is?
What would happen if I zip tied the throttle on a $10 yard sale weed whacker and left it under the camera and walked away. Would it ticket every single vehicle that drove past? What happens when every person that gets a mail in ticket from this goes to court and asks to see the footage and then explains they run factory pipes and the camera must be wrong?
I mean I would never advise trying that at the cost of a half gallon of gas and a $10 weed whacker. I am just wondering.
I also would never advise putting one of those camera defeating filters over your plates and driving back and forth past it 10 times in a row with the cut outs open.

Of course, I won't need to worry about those for along time in my neck of the woods, besides no one living here enough to whine about it, that thing wouldn't last 2 days before it had a hole in the side of it about the size of a 12 gauge slug. Not that I advise that either, I mean shame on people for doing stuff like that!

 

[toolmanmike]

I like my cars quiet. I even run mufflers on my race cars.
I have no problem with it IF, and that's a BIG IF, if they ticket the 90% of obnoxious Harley ******** riding around with no mufflers at all.
Noise is noise. 1 in 100 cars/trucks too loud, 90 out of 100 harleys.

 

[j-c-c-62]

I also would never advise putting one of those camera defeating filters over your plates and driving back and forth past it 10 times in a row with the cut outs open.

An issue that has concerned me over the years about LPR (license plate readers) is what info/data are they actually collecting. It's now reported they collect besides the plate a corresponding picture of your car and of course time and place. Meaning unless you change out the car, they can eventually identify your car without the correct plate or no plate with the now thousands of other full time LPR's on the highways, by a mere dent in the bumper, an odd hubcap, bumper stickers, crap on the dash, car color, items in the PU bed, etc by comparing it to another pic of the vehicle when not trying to be discrete and or disguised. I suspect AI is a big help in that department.

 

[68-500]

An issue that has concerned me over the years about LPR (license plate readers) is what info/data are they actually collecting. It's now reported they collect besides the plate a corresponding picture of your car and of course time and place. Meaning unless you change out the car, they can eventually identify your car without the correct plate or no plate with the now thousands of other full time LPR's on the highways, by a mere dent in the bumper, an odd hubcap, bumper stickers, crap on the dash, car color, items in the PU bed, etc by comparing it to another pic of the vehicle when not trying to be discrete and or disguised. I suspect AI is a big help in that department.

Flock cameras! Im a law abiding person but the police can F-off with them. Total violation of our right to move about as we please.

 

[69conv]

And then came the day that skynet became self aware...

 

[Dave6T4]

I do not understand how motorcycles can get by with making SO MUCH noise. A large percentage of them are louder than a car with open headers. When I can hear a bike 3 or 4 miles down the road, that is just too loud. The bikers have a self-serving myth of "Loud pipes save lives." Maybe from the rear? How many motorcycles get rear-ended? I don't believe the loud pipes are heard any better from the sides or forward.
The real problem is inattentive drivers insulated in their A/C cars, with their tunes turned up, and rarely checking their mirrors. Loud pipes are not going to influence these drivers. In another life, I often drove a fire truck, and was constantly surprised how many drivers could neither hear nor see a large red vehicle sporting flashing emergency lights and a blaring siren. The fact that the siren was mounted just above my head gave me a false sense of security of just how much noise I was making. I feel the same is true of bikers with their loud pipes.
I have seen biker groups on Charity rides being escorted by motorcycle police, who do not bat an eye at all the racket they are accompanying. If my car made anywhere near that noise, I would not get 5 miles down the road before getting cited for "excessive noise". My opinion.

 

[j-c-c-62]

The real problem is inattentive drivers insulated in their A/C cars, with their tunes turned up, and rarely checking their mirrors. Loud pipes are not going to influence these drivers. In another life, I often drove a fire truck, and was constantly surprised how many drivers could neither hear nor see a large red vehicle sporting flashing emergency lights and a blaring siren. The fact that the siren was mounted just above my head gave me a false sense of security of just how much noise I was making. I feel the same is true of bikers with their loud pipes.
........... My opinion.

We have the technology now to incorporate in every new car an internal on or in the dash warning/blinking light an emergency vehicle is operating nearby at low cost. We just need the will. I fully agree if a driver was truly an alert driver there are few situations it would ever be needed, but thinking there ever will be only alert drivers is a bridge to far.