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Personally, I would favor "noise tax" for any noise generated, regardless of the reason. (I may be biased, I am noise-sensitive.) In this case, it will put pre
by stared 6y ago
Personally, I would favor "noise tax" for any noise generated, regardless of the reason. (I may be biased, I am noise-sensitive.)
In this case, it will put pressure to avoid, or reduce, noise when possible (as it directly lowers costs).
It's not only cars - all neighbors with a passion for loud music (or quarrels), repair works taking longer and louder than necessary.
- alextheparrot 6y agoIf someone had to pay $1 to use their car horn I think we’d have much better drivers as well
- jacquesm 6y agoMost Romanian drivers would be bankrupt within a day or so.
- etrautmann 6y agoI absolutely detest Harley's and other loud motorcycles and don't understand why there are no restrictions on vehicular noise. Why do certain individuals get to impose their absurdly loud vrooms on everyone else just because they want to? It's such a trivially stupid negative externality that has no reason to exist.
- alonmower 6y agoThere are. They can and should be ticketed if they remove their mufflers or put in exhausts above the legal limit but lots of them DGAF
- angry_octet 6y agoThis is the whole point of riding around on a vibrating sex toy -- to be obnoxious to everyone else, to shout 'look at me'.
- sp332 6y agoHarley Davidson was held sued by the EPA for selling aftermarket "offroad-only" parts for customers' daily drivers. https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/consumerist/2016/08/env_enforcement-2608482-v1-harley_davidson_complaint.pdf https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...
- ghaff 6y agoThere's always going to be a lot of noise in dense areas. It doesn't even have to be a city. Any buildings with shared walls too.