(does not reflect my opinion, just thought it looked funny)

Less hostile when in context.

Taken from a YouTube channel called Not Just Bikes.

  • @[email protected]
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    851 year ago

    Cars are already subject to noise restrictions. So effectively loud cars are banned. There is just little enforcement for most of it.

      • Seraph
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        161 year ago

        What does it matter if they aren’t enforceable?

          • @[email protected]
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            121 year ago

            That may work to a point, people who get off on their noisy shits are more than willing to put in the work themselves.

            • @smackmyballsoff
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              11 year ago

              Yep, 99% of the time that’s the case around here. Live next to a well trafficked road and have heard enough to identify a modded exhaust. It’s very rare that the loud assholes have stock exhausts, they usually put money into buying loud shit or just slice their old one off for good measure.

              Also, even the modded exhausts wouldn’t be so bad if the drivers didn’t intentionally gun it just to make noise.

              Then come the motorcycle groups, they’re the absolute worst. Even one is bad, but when a group of 50 travel through here on a quiet day it’s just… sad, enraging etc.

              They’re the loudest we get around where I live, if ANYONE is breaking a noise ordinance it’s them, 50× over but I’ve never seen them pulled over or ticketed.

              I don’t care if they’re loud, go do that on a “back road” where the houses are an acre away, don’t do it on a small street where babies are sleeping barely 20 feet away from you. At that volume, being that close they’d might as well knock on your door and scream in your face.

              • Kaspar Houser
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                81 year ago

                BECAUSE THEY ARE STROOOOOONG dude! That’s why loud! I LIIIIKKKEE THE STRONG FAST MACHINE! Strong manly, fast manly, LOUD MANLY!

                • @[email protected]
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                  Amen brother. If your engine doesn’t make every dog in the neighborhood bark can you even call yourself a man? I wanna make every glass of water on the block shake like that scene in Jurassic park.

              • @[email protected]
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                -11 year ago

                That’s not what homie is getting at.

                Irritatingly loud cars don’t come from the manufacturer like that. When you buy a car there’s no “annoyingly loud” option.

                People modify their cars. The objective is better performance, but the car will probably be louder.

                • Kaspar Houser
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                  In what world? Are you naive? AMG alone is thriving their business model on loud cars. There is luxury brands like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Königsegg which are loud by design. There is muscle cars from Ford, Corvette, Cadillac etc.etc. There is loud Audis, Porsche, BMWs, Mercedes. There es even a ridiculously loud Volkswagen Golf GTI or R.

                  Like what?!?!

                  Edit: they even having a sound check feature on their websites lmao (at least Mercedes)

                  Edit: for reference the Golf R has even a membrane build into to cockpit to amplify its sound to the passengers.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Let’s refocus the police funds of shooting or falsely arresting POC, and instead ticketing and enforcing the loud car situation.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Who needs cops? I believe CA passed a bill to trial automatic enforcement of this issue last year. Detects excessive noise and photographs the license plates just like speed cameras.

        I’m waiting to see where they will trial it. I haven’t heard anything recently.

              • @[email protected]
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                61 year ago

                This article says the opposite though.

                Therefore, federal courts have affirmed the right of municipalities to use speeding and red light cameras. Additionally, lawsuits challenging the use of private companies to operate red light cameras have been dismissed or defeated.

                I am not a lawyer and I have wondered about the constitutional questions of these. But according to this the courts have largely allowed them.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I know what I’m saying is not objective data, but where I live I hear a ton of motorcycles that are tweaked to remove the silencers and noise protections

  • @[email protected]
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    431 year ago

    You guys lump motorcycles in on this, right? There’s some biker rally/meetup relatively close by this week/weekend, so I’m busy giving the finger to every asshole that passes with their stupid straight-pipe harleys and dumb shitty radios screaming skynard or AC/DC.

    I drive an EV, fwiw. There’s literally zero public transportation here, so I’m not on the fuckcars train, sorry.

    • Farid
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      591 year ago

      Fuckcars is not necessarily about not having a car. It’s about wanting the conditions in which you’re able to get rid of your car.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      You can have a car and still want to fuck cars… wait no… and still be fuckcars. I do, and I’m mad I need one at all without losing hours a day.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      My town has a “bike week” every few months it feels like, where all the people with their way too damn loud bikes get the privilege of blocking off half the city for a week to… I don’t even know?? Drink, I guess? Whatever the case, a major road becomes impassable and the entire city gets too loud to have a conversation on the sidewalk. It’s awful, god knows why the city thinks it’s a good idea. Ugh, now l’m annoyed again just thinking about it…

    • @[email protected]
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      I’d argue fossil motorcycles should be banned before fossil cars. If it’s about riding with nothing between you and the ground, an electric MC will do plenty. Otherwise, cars serve the same need.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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        21 year ago

        I’m intending to get an electric bike, when I can. For me, nothing beats cruising down fire roads and a bit of single-track on a quiet vehicle.

    • セリャスト
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      Driving an EV does not mean you don’t make noise, the noise is also mostly tires on the road above 30 km/h

  • Xusontha
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    371 year ago

    But what about that one dude who wants to go rrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRR at three in the morning and wake up everyone in a five mile radius?

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    As someone who lives near a busy road: lets start with making subwoofers illegal first. Its 100x worse than a roaring engine

    • Lord Wiggle
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      161 year ago

      How about both? A car with a subwoofer is still a loud car.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Idk about the US but here you can be fined if you cause noise. Like maxing out the subwoofer on a parking lot next to residential areas, being a nuisance. As much as I agree with you, I still found loud exhaust/engine noise worse, just because there’s much more of it.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yeah, there are noise ordinances in theory, but those are never enforced and if you live in a questionable neighborhood, the penalty for calling the cops to enforce them is way steeper than just dealing with the insufferable noise. I hate feeling bass shake my whole house at 2am, but if I have to choose I guess I pick that over being shot.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Yeah there is definitely more of it, but somehow its less disturbing to me. Its at least usually constant whereas bass is like pulsating. The odd Harley Davidson motorcycle can be extremely annoying though, the exhaust on those is designed to be extra loud, which I would say is worse than bass.

        All of the above should be fined, however, its basically unheard of to get in trouble for blasting your speakers or having loud exhaust, at least where I live.

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    151 year ago

    Or just because it’s annoying as hell and we have the technology to make silent cars, so there is no valid reason to have noisy cars on public roads.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      How about how some luxury cars are so silent, that speakers or exhaust diaphragms are added to make noise.

    • Radioactive Radio
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      41 year ago

      Silent cars are dangerous too, I had an electric bus zoom past me and i didn’t hear shit because of the busy road. I thought I was dead. They should have some kind of sound at least.

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        31 year ago

        I don’t think it’s the silence that makes car and other vehicle dangerous… It’s the fact that the road is there turf and you as a pedestrian or a cyclist have to be extra vigilant to cross. It’s regrettable most cities are designed that way. Plus, I am almost certain electric buses, just like trams, have a ring bell to make extra noise warning distracted pedestrians. Finally, it’s always the responsibility of the driver (even you as a car driver) to be vigilant of his surrounding, the driver is in charge of the safety of people all around him as he his in control of a massive, deadly machine.

      • @[email protected]
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        So you didnt hear it because other cars are louder. Tire noise already accounts for a substantial amount of the noise that cars make when the exhaust hasnt been modded to be louder.

        • Radioactive Radio
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          11 year ago

          Can’t really expect everyone to go full environment friendly mode. And adding silent hunk of fast going metals is just dangerous. Besides living in India you get so used to all the traffic noises, you can’t keep track of tire sounds cuz they’re everywhere.

    • @[email protected]
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      -281 year ago

      The reason why someone wants loudness is for their own safety factor such as motorbikes. If cars can’t see them or hear them it is very dangerous. And it helps even less that someone with a car also wants to be loud so they can’t be aware of others on the road.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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        251 year ago

        Loud pipes do not actually save lives. It’s been studied. And they absolutely would not have prevented or mitigated my own wreck (sideswiped in traffic), which has led me to an extended hiatus from riding.What did save my life and minimize my injury? Proper safety equipment.

        A full-face helmet that was properly tested for regulatory approval is why I didn’t receive a TBI or need reconstructive surgery, as I high-sided and slid for a ways on my face, and got hit by my bike as it has more inertia.

        An armored jacket with CE level 2 armor is why I suffered a nickel-sized abrasion as my only visible external injury (if it had impact armor covering my abdomen, my internal injuries may have been prevented).

        A pair of armored, kevlar-mesh overalls are why I did not have a broken hip or need extra hardware (my hip does inform me when it’s cold, however).

        A pair of tall, CE certified boots, that were close to needing replacement, are why I sprained, rather than fractured my ankle and why my shin was not fractured. My ankle appears to inform me when precipitation is likely though, so between in and hip, I’m almost a human weather station now :P

        And finally, the piece of equipment that I think did the most to save my life are the CE-Cat 2 EN13594/2015 certified gloves, with hard sliders (steel and composite) that I was wearing. Not only did they prevent significant injury that my hands would have suffered, but they allowed me to gain control of my motion, turning my tumble into a slide and steer myself away from traffic that I would have otherwise collided with, very likely causing fatality.

        Loud pipes really just annoy the piss out of people around the bike and force pedestrians and those in their homes and businesses to pay attention to said biker. There’s better ways to get attention in the community, like volunteer work or developing an impressive skill. Then, take the money that would be going towards loud pipes and spend it on actual, effective safety gear, not that leather vest nonsense.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        This is such a lame argument.

        You could just beep your horn every time you see another car.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    As somebody who lives in a questionable neighbor, I would personally sacrifice a lot if we could ban vehicles from playing music above personal listening levels while in residential zones. Feeling house-reverberating bass at all hours of the day is way worse than normal car noises.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    On vehicles modified for sporting purposes the silencers no longer work because the propagation of sound is different and therefore db-killers are applied or it is avoided to drive them around the city center or during off hours. Then there are people who purposely remove the silencer just to make noise and this also reduce factory performance, these deserve to have their license withdrawn because they take advantage of the fact that noisy vehicles occasionally exist.

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    I moved to an apartment adjacent to an intersection on a medium-high traffic stroad and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I have never been so stressed. I can barely even enjoy music now because half the time if I hear low bass in a song I think its coming from outside and I get annoyed for a few seconds.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    In the right column should also have : cannot be aware of others on the road if you can’t hear their regular engines around you.

    • @[email protected]
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      The only situation here in Europe where I hear individual cars is when I’m a pedestrian on a fairly empty road or when they’re obnoxiously loud.

      Otherwise, I mostly hear my own car due to modern soundproofing and maybe the overall din of all the cars combined.

      The former situation is actually addressed legislatively for really quiet cars (like EVs): They’re required to have a minimum noise level. If they drive slow enough to be really quiet, they have to generate an artificial sound.

      (Edit: I do hear motorcycles, because they tend to have a unique, loud sound.)

    • @[email protected]
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      -121 year ago

      I found that a straight-through muffler made for a 99% reduction of pedestrians stepping into the road without looking.

  • @[email protected]
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    Eh. Not denying that also cars have cons, but some pros are 1. sometimes the car is the best way/in the shortest time to get somewhere 2. You can carry much more with you if you have a car 3. It can be used as a place to sleep in 4. You can give lifts to people 5. Some work require to have a car (if you need to be in many different places in a day)

    I myself don’t have a driving license and I hope I never need one. I use public transportation and a bicycle to get around.

    Dunno why loudness is a thing though. Reasonable volume should be advised.