Noise Detection Cameras

[safrane]

Coming to a City near you (Well near me actually, but you may be next).

Bradford noise-detecting camera to crack down on boy racers - BBC News

Aware they have been mentioned before in areas of London, but it looks like they can be easily moved around the country. I suspect they will catch more motorbikes and truck/busses as well as us 'Boys'

 

[conaero]

Just another revenue stream for the honest motorist

I suspect any ‘boy racer’ will be buying a can of expanding foam for the boot of his car and the microphone will suffer the same fate as the speed cameras round here…well I hope

 

[FIFTY]

Hopefully this will shut up obnoxiously loud motorbikes

 

[Chiveroni]

I read the article with a healthy dose of scepticism. Then I read this: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/exposure-to-traffic-noise-linked-to-higher-dementia-risk/

Probably explains why many German autobahn's have speed restrictions at night.

There will be a day when it's just impossible to have any fun any more.... And then it'll be like living in Switzerland (apologies to any Swiss members - but I am just having some fun)...

 

[Scaf]

We have a local bypass where I can clearly hear the motor bikes late in the evening and or early on a Sunday from my garden.
As a test I ragged the Strad with valves open H pipe and full on 7800 rpm gear changes but could not be heard by my son who was at home.
I was quite surprised……. but I guess a motorcycle at 12000 rpm is an awful lot louder.

 

[Chiveroni]

Until recently I had a 1200cc BMW without a sports exhaust - just the stock unit. It went fast enough for anyone so i just don't get the need for these screaming aftermarket exhausts. Oh, hang on, I've just become my father...

 

[RoaryRati]

There was a feature about it on the BBC 1's One Show last night - apparently noisy car exhausts really stress people out

 

[Felonious Crud]

At full chat and with the valves open, sport mode engaged, my car is a ******* noisy, obnoxious *******. Even I'm disturbed by it at times.

Anyway, like with speed cameras, when people know where these noise cameras are installed they'll just slow down and coast past.

 

[Nayf]

There was a feature about it on the BBC 1's One Show last night - apparently noisy car exhausts really stress people out

I get stressed out hearing crying babies left to cry, small yappy dogs and lawnmowers on a sunny day.
I look forward to these unpleasant noises being eradicated too.

Hmm

 

[Zep]

I was sure I’d seen this before. It’s still too tricky to make reasonable measurements of the noise level.

https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/noise-levels-crackdown.29133/

 

[midlifecrisis]

Don't blame bikes, if you couldn't hear them you wouldn't see them.

Loud pipe saves lives.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Hopefully this will shut up obnoxiously loud motorbikes

F...off!

 

[Nayf]

Don't blame bikes, if you couldn't hear them you wouldn't see them.

Loud pipe saves lives.

This is very true.

 

[safrane]

At full chat and with the valves open, sport mode engaged, my car is a *** noisy, obnoxious ***. Even I'm disturbed by it at times.

Anyway, like with speed cameras, when people know where these noise cameras are installed they'll just slow down and coast past.

These are mobile and will be moved from area to area

 

[GeoffCapes]

When my asbo 4200 failed its mot for being "too loud" I complained to the tester that the Harley Davidson parked outside the test centre was far louder.

His response was that it came out of the factory like that and passed (whatever a vehicle passes to be road legal) therefore it was within guidelines.
My 4200 exhaust was clearly not standard, is too loud and therefore a fail.

However, all of this is subjective, as the guy in London who got nicked for driving his standard Strad "too loudly".
And motorbikes without sport exhausts can be even louder.

There's just no consistency.

Dare I say it, the only way to stop "nuisance" vehicles in residential area are cameras and speed humps as let be honest, the motorbikes you hear screaming along are most certainly breaking whatever the speed limit is for that road.
Make the road unattractive to those in cars and bikes to race along and you don't have a problem. It just moves somewhere else.

 

[Felonious Crud]

These are mobile and will be moved from area to area

Gah, borrocks! That's not playing fair.

I hope they move them quietly.

 

[Felonious Crud]

Dare I say it, the only way to stop "nuisance" vehicles in residential area are cameras and speed humps as let be honest, the motorbikes you hear screaming along are most certainly breaking whatever the speed limit is for that road.

Nah. Some bikes and cars sound like bags of noisey shite even at very legal speeds. High speed is for sure not the only determinant of noise. There's some fecker around here with a bike you can hear at least a mile away that needs a can of expanding foam up his pipe.

 

[gb-gta]

I used to have the official ‘race’ silencer on my rsv1000 many, many years ago when I bought it. It was too loud for the road to be fair. Still sounds ok with the standard one on so went back to that. You can make yourself a target for great annoyance, and for the police, if you go too loud, and blast through villages with no respect for the locals.
As usual, be sensible don’t be the idiot who ruins it for everyone else. Bit like the London supercar balloons.

 

[Felonious Crud]

I used to have the official ‘race’ silencer on my rsv1000 many, many years ago when I bought it. It was too loud for the road to be fair. Still sounds ok with the standard one on so went back to that. You can make yourself a target for great annoyance, and for the police, if you go too loud, and blast through villages with no respect for the locals.
As usual, be sensible don’t be the idiot who ruins it for everyone else. Bit like the London supercar balloons.

Amen, brother!

 

[Devonboy]

I read the article with a healthy dose of scepticism. Then I read this: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/exposure-to-traffic-noise-linked-to-higher-dementia-risk/

Probably explains why many German autobahn's have speed restrictions at night.

There will be a day when it's just impossible to have any fun any more.... And then it'll be like living in Switzerland (apologies to any Swiss members - but I am just having some fun)...

control through safety….it’s the modern way….it’s all for our own benefit don’t you know!