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[General] Deliberately loud vehicles should be illegal, impounded, and crushed into a cube at the owner's expense (dubvee.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since the last 24 hours have had nothing but troll posts (and one that a user deleted; dunno what that one was), here's my latest gripe / reason I'm tired shaped into the form of an Unpopular Opinion. Hopefully this gets us back on track.

Nobody is impressed by you revving your engine at a stop light and cranking out 300 dB of noise from your fart cannon at 3 in the morning (or any time of day, for that matter). There is also no reason to peel out from the stop light when the next light is 2 blocks away and guaranteed to be red. e.g. We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.

Driving an (intentionally) obnoxiously loud vehicle, especially driving it aggressively, should result in immediate revocation of license and the offending vehicle crushed into a cube. As much as I hate vague "disturbing the peace" laws, this seems like a good use for them (where noise ordinances don't exist).

I don't care about the extra 1-2 HP you get. Do tell me all the (street legal) things your pavement princess of a truck is going to do with that (I can see it has neither the tow package nor a speck of dirt on the tires). If you just like the sound and think I should get over it, allow me to come fart near you. If you don't like the smell, by your logic, that's on you: get over it.

Note: It may be a regional thing, but this is definitely an unpopular opinion in my (very redneck) area.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well being obnoxious is the entire point of it but if they're annoying you then they're doing their job. If they're annoying your neighbors then they're doing their job. They are for getting attention of people in the area by annoying them or their curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty old news that they just get ignored as a result... https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2016/may/17/are-car-alarms-a-complete-waste-of-time-security-insurance

I never look at the car with the alarm going off but I hear it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think the main reason for that is false alarms are far more common than actual thefts. I still check but thankfully I'm in an area where that amounts to maybe a handful of times a year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, that's accurate. But there's also the fatigue of it where it happens so often. People get conditioned to treating it as an annoyance to ignore rather than something to investigate.