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cub GucciBTW what’s happening with coal rollers?
I was next to a truck the other day, and the driver looked like he was in severe distress. He must have been thinking, “I really want people to know what an irredeemable unrepentant asshole I am, but there are a few people out there who can’t figure it out just by looking at my large, shiny pickup truck that has obviously never been used to haul anything. Even though that’s a 100% guarantee. If only I could afford to roll coal again! This is all Joe Biden’s fault.”
I’m just kidding. Who can afford to drive these days?
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MintyFreshImma city bus driver. The other day I was pulled over picking someone up, and wouldn’t you know it, some asshat in an obnoxious truck coal rolls me. And of course I had my window open because spring.
I gotta say the noise is worse than the smoke. Why anyone would spend money to make their vehicle sound that way will forever baffle me.
But anyways, to my joy the guy was immediately pulled over! I asked around and I guess the guy got nailed for: interfering with transit operations, illegal tint, and failure to obey traffic signals. About 350$'s worth of tickets.
$350 not enough.
Coal rolling is objectively bad for everything including the driver. It’s a great metaphor for certain Americans (and maybe us as a whole)
There’s a documentary series, “How To by John Wilson,” that’s on HBO (at least in the US), and it’s basically a Nathan Fielder style absurdist look at the world, with a bunch of real world footage edited together, sometimes with a voiceover, for comedic effect.
But one of the episodes has him going out to figure out why people roll coal, and he interviews a guy who does it, who cannot string together any coherent thought behind it. It’s amazing television.
eletesI’ve always wanted to try a really loud car. Same goes for those loud motorcycles.I can’t imagine the constant loud noise everywhere you go. You can’t sneak home when it’s late. Going out to just pick up some groceries? Well looks like your breaking the sound barrier doing it.
grimpyIn an ICE car the part of the tailpipe which is wider (which I believe is also were the catalytic converter is) is tuned to change the engine noise (mostly to reduce it, but it can also be tuned to make it “purr” rather than “roar”, like in sports cars)
Cut that out and the car becomes much louder (and if it’s not diesel, I believe it’s with the kind engine sound one associates with muscle cars).
The catalytic converter is up front near the engine, but usually when people want to make noisy, they just cut off or empty out the back boxes. Previous owner of my car did it, actually makes the exhaust of my 3.0 TDi sound kinda sporty, not like a diesel. But it IS a bit loud, I try to keep it under 1500 RPM or ideally even 1200 RPM if driving home at nighttime because at low speeds the exhaust actually makes more noise than the tires. At highway speeds you’re back to the tires being the noisiest part of the car unless you floor it.
My car’s had the back boxes cleared out by the previous owner. It’s pretty loud at idle or when accelerating, but you don’t notice it while cruising at a steady speed because at 50 km/h it’s not significantly above tire noise anymore, and at 90 km/h you only really hear tire and wind noise, no exhaust.
Now if you cut out the resonators, that might cause significant highway drone that would be annoying as hell.
You live in a place where it’s warm enough to have spring weather in March (it’s still around freezing here) but the city doesn’t use busses with air conditioners?
Fresh air straight from the window is nice sometimes. At low speeds it’s nice to crack a window open in spring when it’s like 10C or so. At high speeds an open window becomes annoying and creates drag (to the point that if you need cooling, AC wastes less fuel). Plus at high temps it won’t do anything to cool you down anyway. But low speed, medium temperature - hell yeah I’m opening the window.
It was like 40f, spring may be a strong word for what’s happening. The snow is starting to melt. Tis glorious. And yes, we do have AC’s that kinda sorta work on a good day.