Since the last 24 hours have had nothing but troll posts (and one that a user deleted; dunno what that one was), here’s my latest gripe / reason I’m tired shaped into the form of an Unpopular Opinion. Hopefully this gets us back on track.
Nobody is impressed by you revving your engine at a stop light and cranking out 300 dB of noise from your fart cannon at 3 in the morning (or any time of day, for that matter). There is also no reason to peel out from the stop light when the next light is 2 blocks away and guaranteed to be red. e.g. We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.
Driving an (intentionally) obnoxiously loud vehicle, especially driving it aggressively, should result in immediate revocation of license and the offending vehicle crushed into a cube. As much as I hate vague “disturbing the peace” laws, this seems like a good use for them (where noise ordinances don’t exist).
I don’t care about the extra 1-2 HP you get. Do tell me all the (street legal) things your pavement princess of a truck is going to do with that (I can see it has neither the tow package nor a speck of dirt on the tires). If you just like the sound and think I should get over it, allow me to come fart near you. If you don’t like the smell, by your logic, that’s on you: get over it.
Note: It may be a regional thing, but this is definitely an unpopular opinion in my (very redneck) area.
One of our suburbs used to have this rule. It kind of fizzled out due to unnecessarily large cars for a suburb environment becoming normal.
Crushing a vehicle because it’s loud is stupid and waste of resources. In a civilized country it would simply fail inspection and you’d have to make it not-loud in order to get it registered again.
We left the first red light at the same time. I drove normally, you like an asshole, and we both stopped at the next light all the same.
Ah, but only one of you had any fun.
Your opinion is pretty popular. The unpopular opinion is thinking it’s cool to be loud and drive aggressively.
I used to think loud trucks were cool, and then I turned 8.
Agree. I can only hope it gets less common as electric vehicles become more common. Although, I could also see them adding aftermarket noisemakers just to be obnoxious.
One of the things I love about my electric motorcycle is how quiet it is. I can ride around without annoying people with obnoxious noise.
I have to add that I don’t mind the sound of most (unmodded) exhausts, but I can’t also imagine that when you love in a region that’s popular among motorcyclist, it becomes quite annoying when you can’t enjoy the good weather outside without near constant noise.
Of course – fully agreed that something has to be done. Civilized countries, like Netherlands have “sound traps” – if a vehicle is too loud, photo is taken as in speed photo traps, and penalty is sent to the owner. Sadly, I do not live in such a country.
Addendum: Rolling Coal should be an immediate bitch slap and some jail time being force fed Vegan meals while blasted with Enya.
And let’s not forget headlights at night. If you can blind someone your lights should be illegal, even worse if you need your truck to overcompensate and keep them at eye level.
Being a bit hyperbolic here: I have to deal with 1000 stupid societal things every day, either directly, as mandated by the legal system, or because of the popularity of religion, etc. I have to drive slow through school zones when the lights are flashing. I have to deal with Trump voters and the last eight years of political drama. I have to deal with teenagers driving wrecklessly down my street because other people feel have the right to breed and disturb my peace 17 years later. I have to listen to the soapbox preachers shouting at me about how I’m going to hell. I have to deal with poor people breaking down on the side of the road, creating dangerous traffic situations.
If I can deal with all of this, people can deal with my modified exhaust for five seconds as I drive by. Otherwise, I’ll just find some other way to be obnoxious haha.
I’ll just find some other way to be obnoxious haha.
No kidding.
