UK Proves Again You Can Monitor Almost Everything - Noise Cameras Will Soon Issue Tickets To Loud Cars

The Government has commissioned a prototype ‘noise camera’, which will be installed at several locations over the next seven months. It measures the sound levels of passing vehicles and then uses automated number plate recognition to identify offenders.

The clampdown has been launched because the Department for Transport believes that “illegal, excessively noisy vehicles” can make life a “misery” for those living close by, especially in rural communities, and have “very serious health impacts”.

The Government hasn't changed the legal noise limits for vehicles, but the DfT says that current enforcement is mainly reactive and relies on subjective judgement. It says that the measurement system “will determine whether the legal noise limit has been breached by taking into account the class and speed of the vehicle relative to the location of the noise camera.”

MDarringer - 6/10/2019 8:42:49 AM

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Nanny State Gestapo

PUGPROUD - 6/10/2019 9:05:58 AM

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To quote Howard Beale "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

rdce34 - 6/10/2019 9:43:57 AM

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Good. I hope it applies to motorcycles.

qwertyfla1 - 6/10/2019 12:09:10 PM

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I am for this as nothing is more obnoxious than these idiots with Harleys with wide open pipes or riced out tuner boyz scaring wildlife and terrorizing children as they sleep in bed. This needs to be equally applied to all the meathead offenders though...

MDarringer - 6/10/2019 8:20:41 PM

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Will you care when YOUR freedoms are encroached on, but not until then?

qwertyfla1 - 6/11/2019 6:55:07 AM

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How is obnoxious noise pollution and encroachment on my rights? You can't drive an unsafe vehicle that could compromise other drivers safety so how is this any different?

valhallakey - 6/10/2019 1:39:54 PM

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They have gone full Orwellian over there, cameras everywhere and now microphones. Sad for a liberal democracy to turn into a full on surveillance state, just waiting for a bad actor leader to abuse it.

valhallakey - 6/10/2019 1:41:37 PM

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Not to slam any British posters on the board... great country in many many other respects, but things like this make me personally go hmmm not good.

MDarringer - 6/10/2019 8:21:08 PM

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Britland is NOT a democracy.

valhallakey - 6/11/2019 1:12:03 AM

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Definitely more complicated than the US with a Constitutional Monarchy and a Parliamentary Democracy, not to mention the complications with Northern Ireland, Scotland, Whales...