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Simple solution: drive electric cars instead of cars with an internal combustion engine. We have a Nissan Leaf & it's soooooo quiet!
Some people are complaining about electric cars being too quiet. It seems that pedestrians don't hear the noise of the vehicle when it's moving toward them. All they hear is the noise made by the impact
...CA is certainly responsible for some firsts regarding automobiles, but to make a blanket statement like you did, implying that everything originates in CA is simply false.
Okay Tex, I'm sorry. I just thought you were saying that everybody in CA drives a Prius.
Jacked up pickups with blinding HIDs and loud exhaust are common here in Alabama too unfortunately. The people that drive them like to floor it from a stop like they think they're driving a muscle car or something. Full size trucks drink enough gas, why deliberately try to make them drink more? I guess gas isn't high enough yet?
It took one tenth of a second to think of one, and that's jacked up 4x4 trucks. That's a TX thing all the way. Don't even attempt to argue that California started that. We've had that in TX (and most of the dirty South) for decades.
You also didn't bring drifting to the states either. That was actually FL that had that first. Nor were you first to add aftermarket "vents" to vehicles. That was a LA, MS thing, til brands like Cadillac started designing their cars that way.
You were probably in the running for rat tires due to the hispanic population there, but I'm pretty sure we had it first in TX.
Anything else?
I doubt that Texas even had internal combustion engines when the glass pack was invented. The jacked 4X4 was invented in Michigan by the US Army during WWI, but they became really popular in Texas because there weren't any roads there back then. The habit hung on because the tires make adequate flotation devices during floods. Texans can lasso a passing cow for a tow back to land.
Hmmm. I'm gonna build another loud V8 car just to **** off the OP and people like them.
As much as I like the quiet luxury sound of the silence of the Volt, I miss the V8 rumble of my Mustang GT with the aftermarket exhaust and the ripping V8 sound of my BMW 740 with the muffler delete. Maybe I'll put a V8 with flowmasters in my '63 Comet instead of the built I6...
'No one is taking care of noise pollution caused by vehicles'.
Good. We shouldn't pass laws to outlaw things just because they annoy people. It's too slippery a slope.
Mike
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