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I am in favor of louder pipes for motorcycles for safety reasons. But there is such a thing as too loud.
by dumbfounder 3y ago
I am in favor of louder pipes for motorcycles for safety reasons. But there is such a thing as too loud.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoWhich is the same reason every biker with loud pipes wears a full high-vis outfit. Or maybe they're just assholes.
- dumbfounder 3y agoMost of them are assholes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not safer to be louder.
- rrix2 3y agosafer for whom? My windows only rattle after the motorcycle has driven past, they don't project the noise ahead of you nearly as much as you think they do.
- dumbfounder 3y agoIf you are riding on the highway going the same speed as other cars, it is often hard for them to see you, but if they can hear you they know you are there. It isn’t about driving past.
- genter 3y agoSo should every pedestrian have a blazing siren on their head?
- charcircuit 3y agoPedestrians should not be on the road.
- freeone3000 3y agoNo, cars should not be on the road.
- charcircuit 3y agoRoads were built for cars.
- rrix2 3y agoThat's not actually the case in many places in the US, they were forcibly taken for cars in the same way electric streetcar systems were taken from us: > Before the American city could be physically reconstructed to accommodate automobiles, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where cars belong [..] Until then, streets were regarded as public spaces, where practices that endangered or obstructed others (including pedestrians) were disreputable. Motorists’ claim to street space was therefore fragile, subject to restrictions that threatened to negate the advantages of car ownership. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/
- charcircuit 3y agoComing up with a fact that roads existed in the ancient times is not a gotcha. Most of the roads today did not exist back then. 99% of the roads I have driven on did not exist before cars.
- genter 3y agoCrosswalks
- charcircuit 3y agoCrossing the road is different from what is being discussed which is riding along side cars.
- rando_dfad 3y agonot sure the safety argument has factual support; the sound would need to project forward from the motorcycle, wouldn't it?
- fsckboy 3y agohmmm, if I have to hear the noise, I would like a requirement that it blare forward! (so I can step into the crosswalk)
- mikestew 3y agoIf noise made your bike safer, you’d get an insurance discount. People say such things so that they don’t come off as sociopathic, not because it is true. Don’t parrot them.