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When waiting at a light beside some guy who wants to share his music with you whether you like it or not, the only recourse we have now is to either turn our own radio up higher, resulting in a musical battle, or shut the windows and hope his music can't make it through them. All-weather hubcap speakers
would give us a third solution. They'd be designed so that as the musical volume coming from a car beside you increased, the distance between a microphone and amplifier on this hubcap device decreased. The closer they got together, the greater the screeching feedback. Since the speakers would be facing away from you, the other driver would bear the brunt of this screeching. If he or she turned up their radio to overcome the noise they'd only succeed in making the screeching louder. The only thing that would turn it off would be them lowering the volume on their radio below the level that the new device deemed acceptable (local noise ordinances might set the guidelines here). Since each hubcap would only react to the car on the offending side, cars on your other side wouldn't be effected.
Editorial Praising Chicago Loud Car Music Ordinance
http://www.lowerthe...aises%20Chicago.htm
Looks like it works. [bristolz, Nov 29 2004]
Chicago Auto Stereo Businesses try to get law amended
http://www.ce.org/p...=cat&category_id=40
"After seeing sales drop by an average of 30 percent, retailers of car audio products in America's third largest city came a step closer to a more reasonable municipal sound ordinance..." [bristolz, Nov 29 2004]
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much more humane than beating the living shit out of the offenders with a crowbar, pick-axe or 32 oz ball-peen hammer... although, not quite as satisfying. |
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How about, instead, a device that squirts black paint on the offending vehicle with the volume of paint proportional to the sound pressure level? |
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Alternatively, how hard would it be to design a system that thrusts a metallic pointy stake out from the side of your car and into the adjacent loud car that can short out the electrical system of the booming car? Maybe just temporarily interfering for the duration of the stop. |
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As a statically mounted anti-boom car device placed in a quiet neighborhood, say, you could have a blindingly bright light that pulses in sync with the loud car SPL. This would be aimed down the lane and be bright enough that the stereo would have to be turned down before safe passage could be made. Unfortunately, this probably wouldn't be able to safely discriminate between a loud car and an emergency vehicle siren/hailer. That could be bad. |
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You could also have a salami launcher that lands the salami on the vehichle causing the paint to peel. |
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someone's already thought of a perfect solution to the problem. in chicago (I'm unsure of the situation elsewhere) they've got a law stating that any car producing music loud enough to be heard more than 75 feet away is to be impounded.
that was in '98. |
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Whoa. Well, that'd do it. It's not quite perfect, though, as the police need to be around at the time. |
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