When a loud motorcycle [0] goes though a city at night, I wonder how many people it wakes up. It could easily pass thousands of people with just a few miles of

When a loud motorcycle [0] goes though a city at night, I wonder how many people it wakes up. It could easily pass thousands of people with just a few miles of driving. If 1% are woken up, it could still cost dozens of total hours of sleep. Based on how much a loss of sleep lowers performance (and increases health risks), the total cost of that one motorcycle driving one night might be huge. The cost of the health damage and lost productivity might be about as much as stealing a car. Since the cost is spread out over a lot of people, we don't tend to care as much about it. [0] Likely with the muffler deleted. While technically illegal, no one enforces any laws related to the noise output.