BBC News - 'Acoustic cameras' tested in bid to cut noisy vehicles https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48564995
Could end up with a lot of people suing exhaust manufacturers, playing the “why are they selling it if it breaks the law” trick
Well that will piss the Harley riders off, for the rest it will just mean dipping the clutch and dropping the revs when we go past. No real change from scamera vans then.
Feckin hell , any way to pull in money I think there are bigger problems on the roads that need sorting first like mobile phone use whilst driving ,,, I heard about this on the radio this morning and thought WTF ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Rock n Roll Yours sincerely Mr Grumpy
Tbh I think the villagers etc who've been behind the main complaining will be a bit disappointed. Even with a standard mot legal exhaust...a group of bikers going through narrow villages where sound echos early in the morning are going to create enough racket to still annoy them I can see wiggle room for legal challenges too once tickets have started being issued!
In theory it could work, but I think there would have to be a high margin for error. Air temp, air pressure, which way the wind blows, other sources of noise ie, other traffic on the road, aircraft, wildlife to name a few could all have an effect on a noise reading. You could be passing one of these cameras with your road legal exhaust and a vehicle coming the other way could trigger it.
The technology challenges would be interesting. Could it detect how many vehicles are going past it at one time, what about planes and helicopters, will it only measure certain frequencies? Think this is a bit of a non starter, after all what is the legal noise limit for a bike exhaust? Saw an old wheeler dealer the other day where for an IVA a car had to be below 100db at 3500rpm.
Not sure but I think for bikes it's related to the standard exhaust noise and the testers opinion?!? Anyhow it'll be interesting because both my akra gp's have just passed their mot with baffle in and are still loud and I doubt would pass most track day db limits. So what happens if an mot passed can sets it off...or will they align mot with a set db limit? God knows... glad I'll be brown bread by the time this march into joyless fuckwittery is over
Excellent. I'll use that in my defence! 'No, Your Honour, it wasn't my loud exhaust that bought me before the court; it must have been the squeal of that damn hedgehog I ran over just before the recording device.'
Was thinking more about the seagulls perched on top of the camera pissing themselves laughing at the hedgehog getting pinged through the air like a tiddlywink.
Sky reckons there has been a 70db limit on new vehicles since 2016, can only means cars as even my OEM can is rated at 98db. https://news.sky.com/story/cameras-...-tackle-motorists-with-loud-vehicles-11737545
Well that'll be interesting then...how are they going to get the equipment to measure a legally bound car limit and a bike one that has a different mot criteria. Or will they just use it as an excuse to set them all at 70db It's not gonna sort the chav chariots out with their boom boxes... Mr Whippys that you can hear from 30 miles away and the Sunday morning church bells but they're probably next on their list
Don’t know where they got that information from, 70dB is quieter than what the tyres on my car are rated at. Fake news
I just read this on Skynews and it boiled my p1ss. First thought was what a load of bollocks as what are they going to do, make all Harley Davidsons illegal? Just another ill thought out piece of legislation from politicians who haven’t got a clue about what it is they are legislating on. I see a need for butterfly valves returning linked to a camera detector that triggers the valve to close and make the can silent then once past pings open again
