New Camera Mails Tickets to Noisy Cars
New technology allows police to mail automated tickets to cars with loud stereos and noisy exhausts.

Noise cameraTransportation officials are looking to expand the use of photo enforcement to cash in on motorists who blast their stereos or use modified, high-performance exhausts. At least one agency has expressed interest in a ticketing system developed by Acoustic Research Laboratories, a New South Wales company that developed acoustic detection equipment for the Australian Navy.

The fully automated setup mails traffic citations to passing vehicles that exceed a predetermined noise threshold. It can detect loud subwoofers, a noisy exhaust, or even an inopportune honk of the horn.

A combination of sound level meters, cameras and computer processors identify these targets of opportunity. Separate microphone and video modules are pole-mounted in waterproof boxes that communicate with a laptop control unit using WiFi. The manufacturer claims that the system distinguishes predetermined trigger sounds from general background road noise. Once the system is configured, it will generate up to 10,000 tickets before the on-board hard drive is filled. A 10-second video and audio clip is stored for each incident.

Similar red light camera and photo radar technology has generated billions of dollars worldwide. In Washington, DC alone, cameras billed drivers more than $171 million since 1999.

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So if you have a Zonda, you better drive slowly past these cameras.

That goes for mopeds and motorcycles as well. My friends 50cc moped can be heard from more than 1km away. Governments are taking the fun out of having a fast vehicle

I know what you mean man. There are kids here rolling on their tuned mopeds which sing louder than the AMV8. It's insane and very disturbing.

This is just rediculous...

Hope that doesnt happen in the states.

This is what happens when people don't have enough common sense.

Isn't it illegal anyway to have a car that is louder than a certain limit? I know over here in Australia, if your car is louder than 90db, than it's classified 'illegal'.

It is interesting how times have changed. Some time back in Finland (and I guess elsewhere in Europe too, not in America though) when we still had 2 stroke engines in most cars on the road,
most cars would have been illegal given this kind of limits. Remember the old Wartburgs, Trabants, DKWs, BMW Isettas, IFAs and the list goes on.....