- ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM INSTALL
- ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM DRIVERS
- ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM REGISTRATION
- ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM FREE
They dont tend to be super late night, but DC also has swarms of dirtbikes/atv's, loud as heck, and the police officially are not to respond, are told to do nothing, for passerby & rider safety. I dont even know if we have laws against it, but there's definitely no enforcement. People just love tearing up the streets & dosrupting neighbors after a long long night.
I live on a particilarly bad street, to the point where I somewhat deserve it, but it's still a tiny residential street. I wish DC would enforce noise pollution against cars. Someone woke me up this week with a gas leaf blower & I didnt quite drag myself dowm there to give him a verbal warning. I would like the asshole noise machines to stop, but this is not the way.ĭC banned gas powered leaf blowers, that finally went onto effect over the new year.
I have a very high level of distrust in this system, I hate that another automated crap shoot may be upcoming.
ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM REGISTRATION
I eventually just paid the ticket so I could renew my registration without incurring a late fee. The advice I got was to take it to court, which would have been about ten hours of round trip driving. I spent the next two months making daily calls to try to get this fixed, unsuccessfully. I didn’t find out about that ticket until I got a renewal notice that was way, way more expensive than normal. Should be easy to clear up, right?Īpparently no. The college was in a city that I had never been to, and the make/model of my car did not match the report, so it was obviously a mistake taking down the license. It’s ok, it’s California so they’ll just tack the fee onto your registration and force you to pay it if you want to drive legally.Īt one point I got a ticket for my car for parking without a permit at a college. Anyone who likes that idea could move to China or Singapore to try it out
I don't believe in technocracy and a world where our behavior is enforced that way is horrifying. Then there is the whole question of discretion and personalization.įor most people here, I'm sure this falls on deaf ears, but I hope you see my point. But what would happen in practice is that everyone would get the fines. If we went there, all laws would have to be revisited to understand what is an appropriate threshold and penalty so that we could preserve some kind of personal autonomy. That is much different than mandatory automated enforcement that would or could penalize everyone every time they broke a law.
ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM DRIVERS
Laws and penalties are commensurate with that, ie there are countless traffic laws all drivers break every day, because they are there to guide and penalties are rare. This has flaws, but it preserves some notion of freedom while generally pushing people in the "right" direction to control behaviors society doesn't want.
ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM FREE
So people "breaking the law" - and I'm thinking here of traffic laws and other minor offenses - are basically free to weigh their own risk tolerance for the penalty against the chances of being caught. It works (because of how it has evolved, not by explicit design) on the threat of enforcement. Our law enforcement system was not designed to be automated.
ANNOYING LOUD TO GET SCRUTINY FROM INSTALL
It's frustrating.Īnd it's not that I like being surveilled, but I think speed trap cameras and red light cameras are generally worse than this (because you can accidentally go over the speed limit, but you can't accidentally install a loud aftermarket exhaust pipe) so this isn't as much of a problem for me as it seems for some people.Īt one level I'll even appreciate the sweet revenge on the inconsiderate people whose unnecessarily loud vehicles have been annoying me for decades. But they don't, for whatever reason, and I wish they would.
I agree with that, and it would indeed be better if this was enforced by 'old-fashioned' police and their old-fashioned ears. The biggest argument against this seems to be the creeping surveillance state. Motorcycles are probably, by percentage, the worst offenders for this, but it seems like a decibel from one vehicle is as loud as a decibel from another, so I wonder why there's a double standard. I can't understand why the enforced decibel level is 95 for cars and 80 for motorcycles.
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