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I promise that you don't have Koenigseggs racing up and down your block. These are perfomance vehicles that are rarely taken out, usually to tracks or shows, an

I promise that you don't have Koenigseggs racing up and down your block. These are perfomance vehicles that are rarely taken out, usually to tracks or shows, and contribute very little to the world's carbon pollution. Unless I missed something and they started making budget cars, it's really not a problem.

yao420 7y ago
Well unless you live in certain parts of London: https://youtu.be/P-yHO1Lx878 https://youtu.be/P-yHO1Lx878. Noise pollution from sports cars and motorcycles is real.
- catalogia 7y ago
  I don't think that single example meaningfully contradicts the "rarely" sentiment.
  - ravar 7y ago
    The video says this happens for the duration of the summer, every year. That seems pretty frequent to me.
    - catalogia 7y ago
      Frequent in that neighborhood, but still very rare in the grand scheme of things. You're missing the forest for the trees.
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    - evgen 7y ago
      It does not happen “for the duration of the summer”, it is usually only for a few weeks and in a few locations (which, coincidentally, have a high percentage of Middle Eastern expats.). You do not see Ferraris cruising through Shoreditch and with the exception of one douche who drives a gold Lambo down my road every weekend as he heads off somewhere to show it off I have never seen one of these cars actually being driven. Parked near Harrods or Green Park begging for attention, yes. Driving around? No.
- manigandham 7y ago
  It's not a sleepy village raided by supercars. It's like living in Monaco and complaining about the cars and yachts. The noise and bustle is part of the culture of the area and is overall a insignificant part of global noise pollution. Live in a dense city and the noise from construction and service vehicles is 100x worse than the occasional sports car.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  All those poor people that accidentally decided to spend millions on a flat in Knightsbridge must be so upset because of all the sports cars they totally didn’t know would be there.
thefounder 7y ago
Well the they should not be road legal and "everybody"'s happy
andrepd 7y ago
>These are perfomance vehicles that are rarely taken out, usually to tracks or shows, Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road? Obviously I don't have a problem with people driving this in tracks or shows, only in public roads. Besides, if the speed limit is, at most, 130kph, why do we allow (again, on public roads) machines that go to 250, 300, or above? Or that speed from a stop to that aforementioned speed limit in 5 or 6 seconds? Again, by all means enjoy them on the tracks (still, within reason with more relaxed emission standards).
- Hamuko 7y ago
  >Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road? Because they meet all of the legal requirements to be operated on public roads.
  - andrepd 7y ago
    Lol, obviously I'm asking why is this the legal requirement.
    - bendbro 7y ago
      Because the average person is not an exasperated phd student with a strange dislike of speedy cars, I'd guess
      - andrepd 7y ago
        Very funny you would say that because you don't know me at all. I go to tracks whenever I can and I'm saving to buy my own track car as soon as I'm a more settled position in my life. So your ad hominem judgement hardly holds water, does it? I simply have the honesty and self-reflection capabilities to realise that "speedy cars" commit mass murder on a daily basis, and hence performance cars should probably not be road legal unless fitted with a limiter.
        Hamuko 7y ago
luroc 7y ago
It's obviously not a problem of the pollution of that specific car but of endorsing the culture of cumbustion engines.
- claydavisss 7y ago
  > cumbustion engines. accidental but brilliant name for an adult film

yao420 7y ago

Well unless you live in certain parts of London: https://youtu.be/P-yHO1Lx878 https://youtu.be/P-yHO1Lx878. Noise pollution from sports cars and motorcycles is real.

catalogia 7y ago
I don't think that single example meaningfully contradicts the "rarely" sentiment.
- ravar 7y ago
  The video says this happens for the duration of the summer, every year. That seems pretty frequent to me.
  - catalogia 7y ago
    Frequent in that neighborhood, but still very rare in the grand scheme of things. You're missing the forest for the trees.
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  - evgen 7y ago
    It does not happen “for the duration of the summer”, it is usually only for a few weeks and in a few locations (which, coincidentally, have a high percentage of Middle Eastern expats.). You do not see Ferraris cruising through Shoreditch and with the exception of one douche who drives a gold Lambo down my road every weekend as he heads off somewhere to show it off I have never seen one of these cars actually being driven. Parked near Harrods or Green Park begging for attention, yes. Driving around? No.
manigandham 7y ago
It's not a sleepy village raided by supercars. It's like living in Monaco and complaining about the cars and yachts. The noise and bustle is part of the culture of the area and is overall a insignificant part of global noise pollution. Live in a dense city and the noise from construction and service vehicles is 100x worse than the occasional sports car.
ryanlol 7y ago
All those poor people that accidentally decided to spend millions on a flat in Knightsbridge must be so upset because of all the sports cars they totally didn’t know would be there.

thefounder 7y ago

Well the they should not be road legal and "everybody"'s happy

andrepd 7y ago

>These are perfomance vehicles that are rarely taken out, usually to tracks or shows, Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road? Obviously I don't have a problem with people driving this in tracks or shows, only in public roads. Besides, if the speed limit is, at most, 130kph, why do we allow (again, on public roads) machines that go to 250, 300, or above? Or that speed from a stop to that aforementioned speed limit in 5 or 6 seconds? Again, by all means enjoy them on the tracks (still, within reason with more relaxed emission standards).

Hamuko 7y ago
>Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road? Because they meet all of the legal requirements to be operated on public roads.
- andrepd 7y ago
  Lol, obviously I'm asking why is this the legal requirement.
  - bendbro 7y ago
    Because the average person is not an exasperated phd student with a strange dislike of speedy cars, I'd guess
    - andrepd 7y ago
      Very funny you would say that because you don't know me at all. I go to tracks whenever I can and I'm saving to buy my own track car as soon as I'm a more settled position in my life. So your ad hominem judgement hardly holds water, does it? I simply have the honesty and self-reflection capabilities to realise that "speedy cars" commit mass murder on a daily basis, and hence performance cars should probably not be road legal unless fitted with a limiter.
      - Hamuko 7y ago

luroc 7y ago

It's obviously not a problem of the pollution of that specific car but of endorsing the culture of cumbustion engines.

claydavisss 7y ago
> cumbustion engines. accidental but brilliant name for an adult film