Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿May 10, 2023
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people."

More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, and a camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels

https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/la-baule-44500/la-baule-un-radar-antibruit-sur-le-front-de-mer-pour-faire-la-chasse-aux-vehicules-trop-bruyants-52854c3e-180a-11ed-92be-d940840fee51

La Baule. Un radar antibruit sur le front de mer pour faire la chasse aux véhicules trop bruyants | Presse Océan

​Un premier radar de type Méduse entre en service sur le boulevard de mer à titre d’expérimentation. D’autres seront installés en 2023 et ils verbaliseront les véhicules aux sonorités hors normes.

Presse-Océan
May 9, 2023 at 1:10pmWeb
Show thread𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇May 9, 2023

They're also deploying them near airports to measure the night-time noise of private jets.

https://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/nuisances-aeriennes-a-chatou-on-va-mesurer-le-bruit-des-jets-prives-en-approche-du-bourget-17-10-2022-QRYSFA2G65F57GFLQXORFAQVQE.php?utm_campaign=twitter_partage&utm_medium=social

Nuisances aériennes : à Chatou, on va mesurer le bruit des… jets privés en approche du Bourget

Une station de surveillance du bruit a été installée dans cette ville des Yvelines par Bruitparif à la demande de l’Association des communes pour la réduction des nuisances aériennes (Acrena). Les données permettront «d’objectiver» le problème, dans le cadre des discussions à venir avec les autorités aéroportuaires.

Le Parisien
Show threadSellaTheChemistMay 9, 2023
@straphanger I think this is the kind of thing @zapaman might be interested in… 
Show threadgenerationXMay 14, 2023
@straphanger the hell freezes before that happens. that must be ironic.
Show threadguentherMay 9, 2023
@straphanger cool, can we deploy automatic speech/speaker recognition on those as well?
Show threadMaggieMay 9, 2023
@straphanger I've been obsessed with this idea for #NYC ever since these started getting rolled out in France! Excited to see usage increase.
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.May 9, 2023
@straphanger THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!
Show threadAsinyMay 9, 2023
@straphanger What a great idea we could use that here.
Show thread💧🌏 Greg CocksMay 9, 2023
@straphanger imagine the #freedumb anger from all the #harley riders in the #USA #loveit
Show threadCJ PalomaMay 9, 2023

After a certain threshold, you can pretty reliably determine the gender of who is driving a vehicle... by how much noise it makes...

This is not a 100% correlation, but a person could make a good amount of money if they could figure out how to bet "male" on stupidly loud vehicles going by,

Show threadClops May 9, 2023
@straphanger how about they spend their money narrowing streets and make cities more walkable instead?
Show threadgreenPAl00ka 🏳‍🌈May 9, 2023

"As ATVs overrun Philly, it feels like we’re living in Mad Max | Opinion
“Mad Max” is set in a postapocalyptic world where all authority has disappeared and the clans get to do what they please. In other words, it is a lot like the streets of Philadelphia."
"I caught them out of the corner of my eye a few weeks ago as I was sitting in my apartment overlooking Eakins Oval. It was a formation of about 16 three-wheeled ATVs headed down the
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/atv-motorcycle-dune-buggy-philadelphia-noise-20210616.html

@straphanger

As ATVs overrun Philly, it feels like we’re living in Mad Max | Opinion

“Mad Max” is set in a postapocalyptic world where all authority has disappeared and the clans get to do what they please. In other words, it is a lot like the streets of Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Show threadJeremy KahnMay 9, 2023
@straphanger Attention @cstross there is _no way_ that a "Méduse" antinoise system is not a Laundry-adjacent project like the Basilisk network
Show threadMickaël MontessinosMay 10, 2023

@trochee @straphanger @cstross

While I'm all for eldritch horror and Laundry references, I feel it needs to be said that "méduse" in French also means jellyfish.

Now, it may or may not be a coincidence that these devices are first being tested next to the ocean.

Show threadJeremy KahnMay 10, 2023
@montessiel @straphanger @cstross that's what i would EXPECT from the Deep Ones
Show threadCharles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥May 10, 2023
@straphanger It sounds like a variation of the #Klingon proverb: qaStaHvIS wa' ram loSSaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD 😀
Show threadTonya CanningMay 10, 2023
@straphanger @wayemason
This is amazing.
Show threadWaye MasonMay 10, 2023
@TonyaCanning @straphanger still working to get the province to let us do tickets for photo radar red lights noise etc. Since the MVA was written in the 1930s it doesn't really support that kind of thing lol
Show threadTonya CanningMay 11, 2023
@wayemason @straphanger Alas. We can dream, anyway.
Show threadPaulWayMay 10, 2023
@straphanger makes me proud to ride an electric motorbike.
Show threadGreg SpoonerMay 10, 2023
@straphanger YES PLEASE
Show threadGordWaitMay 10, 2023
@straphanger oh boy do we need this on Marine Drive in White Rock BC..
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷May 10, 2023
@straphanger I want this in #Lichtenberg #Karlshorst #Berlin. I'm sure we could crowdfund, even.
Show threadAzundrisMay 11, 2023
@larsmb @straphanger You trust Berlin officials to track down something mobile for noise pollution when even stationary church bells escape them?
Show threadDenis BuckleyMay 10, 2023
@straphanger
L O V E ... T H I S
Show threadtoxtethogradyMay 10, 2023
@straphanger In the US, it's Subarus, Mustangs and Chargers. And the message they all convey - "I'm being driven by an unvaccinated douchebag with testosterone issues..."
Show threadKumar McMillanMay 10, 2023

@straphanger @mhoye this is amazing. I just hope there is support for those who can only afford jacked up rides, heh.

I live next to a mechanic and, LET ME TELL YOU, mechanics all drive jacked up cars. When they leave for the day, I can feel vibrations in my stomach.

Show threadDoctor MemoryMay 11, 2023
@straphanger @spride that's one step closer to my ultimate goal: a device that automatically fires a terawatt laser at any car or motorcycle exceeding 85 dB.
Show threadSimon PrideMay 11, 2023

@memory @straphanger

I’d actually like to see a momentum limit enforced over a speed limit. A bike doing 30 mph (don’t laugh, I’ve achieved that) is much less dangerous than a semi doing the same speed on the same road).

Show threadDoctor MemoryMay 11, 2023
@spride @straphanger 85 decibels, not mph/kph :) But your idea is nonetheless intriguing!
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMay 11, 2023
@straphanger I wonder how often these will hear a loud noise but photograph the wrong thing.
Show threadBill WoodcockMay 11, 2023
@straphanger

I'm not for omnipresent surveillance, but I am for making sure people don't behave antisocially in ways that compromise our ability to live densely. So, good and bad here, but more good than bad, on balance, I think, provided there's no recording and archiving.
Show threadNobody ¯\_(ツ)_/¯™️May 11, 2023
@straphanger nach Berlin damit… SCHNELL! 👀 @deuxcvsix
Show threadLaF0rgeMay 12, 2023
@straphanger @backstube a much better approach to fine/punish those individual idiots, rather than the stupid suggestions in Germany banning motorbikes from certain places or at certain times, implying all motorbike riders exhivit antisocial behavior
Show threadQueen of AnxietyMay 12, 2023
@straphanger We could so use something like this on my street! Doesn’t help that there’s a Harley dealership not far from here.
Show threadmirabilosMay 13, 2023
@straphanger ooooh we had two of these motorcycles passing by when I was in front of the door with the cat recently, who got appropriately scared, and I wished for nails on the road or something… this is a good initiative!