Should loud cars be banned?

Cars are already subject to noise restrictions. So effectively loud cars are banned. There is just little enforcement for most of it.

I'll say that so much of this is unnecessary or even BS. Ban loud cars because they're annoying, that's all that is necessary. Set a decibel limit and if you exceed it then you can be fined. Set time limits like when most people are sleeping so you can have loud cars at some more reasonable times and ban them when people aren't expecting stupidly loud noises.

You guys lump motorcycles in on this, right? There's some biker rally/meetup relatively close by this week/weekend, so I'm busy giving the finger to every asshole that passes with their stupid straight-pipe harleys and dumb shitty radios screaming skynard or AC/DC.

I drive an EV, fwiw. There's literally zero public transportation here, so I'm not on the fuckcars train, sorry.

But what about that one dude who wants to go rrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRR at three in the morning and wake up everyone in a five mile radius?

As someone who lives near a busy road: lets start with making subwoofers illegal first. Its 100x worse than a roaring engine

Or just because it's annoying as hell and we have the technology to make silent cars, so there is no valid reason to have noisy cars on public roads.

Very similar arguments apply for church bells, too.

As somebody who lives in a questionable neighbor, I would personally sacrifice a lot if we could ban vehicles from playing music above personal listening levels while in residential zones. Feeling house-reverberating bass at all hours of the day is way worse than normal car noises.

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In the right column should also have : cannot be aware of others on the road if you can’t hear their regular engines around you.

On vehicles modified for sporting purposes the silencers no longer work because the propagation of sound is different and therefore db-killers are applied or it is avoided to drive them around the city center or during off hours. Then there are people who purposely remove the silencer just to make noise and this also reduce factory performance, these deserve to have their license withdrawn because they take advantage of the fact that noisy vehicles occasionally exist.

I moved to an apartment adjacent to an intersection on a medium-high traffic stroad and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I have never been so stressed. I can barely even enjoy music now because half the time if I hear low bass in a song I think its coming from outside and I get annoyed for a few seconds.

And car sound systems.

I hope we outright ban loud cars, and give huge fines to people with modifications to make their cars louder, like my neighbour who is a piece of sentient garbage.

Also, making noise reducing tires mandatory for cars would be great too.

Also, to reduce noise of cars even more, we need to reduce vehicle weight, so the heavier a car gets, the more it should be taxed every year. This will encourage automakers to make smaller, quieter, and safer vehicles.

I hate all cars, but since getting rid of them entirely is almost impossible, I'd rather make them less shitty.

No, but people that drive loud cars (AND ESPECIALLY FUCKING MOTORCYCLES) should be banned.

I don't need to know twelve miles in advance that the dickless fat dentist brigade is approaching on their overpriced shitmobiles.

some people see cognitive decline as a benefit to their bottom line

Eh. Not denying that also cars have cons, but some pros are 1. sometimes the car is the best way/in the shortest time to get somewhere 2. You can carry much more with you if you have a car 3. It can be used as a place to sleep in 4. You can give lifts to people 5. Some work require to have a car (if you need to be in many different places in a day)

I myself don't have a driving license and I hope I never need one. I use public transportation and a bicycle to get around.

Dunno why loudness is a thing though. Reasonable volume should be advised.

Anybody else remember the trucker convoy protestors? Good times.

Imagine trying to ban trucks from the cities.

No, because there aren't any businesses which pay a livable wage within walking distance of 98% of Americans. yay logic!