New Camera Mails Tickets to Noisy Cars
 

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/10/1019.asp



3/17/2006
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.

Lovely, just what communist America needs.

I slightly understand what you mean yet I feel you do not have a grasp on the definition of the word communist.

thats pretty ridiculous... definitely won't work as well as they are expecting.. what about people who have a fucked up car and in general its just loud not becsause they have a modified exhaust or they blast their stereo, daily i must pass atleast 5 or 6 cars that are fucked up and are just loud for no reason other than the person not maintaining the car... whats next...

i really love where this country is going.. right down the shitter

in one town that has a high crime rate in my area they have cameras with the same setup but for a completely different function, they locate where gun shots originated from and they have a 3 mile range and alert the police station of where the incident occured something like that is useful

but having a camera setup with noise detection to give automated tickets for your vehicle being to loud is just ludacris, cops these days are so fucking lazy its really sad...

Nothing to do with lazy cops. It is more about greedy city managers.

About bloody time they get off their arses and fix their cars.

Maybe some can't afford to fix them let alone barely run them. seeing they probably work for walmart for $6 an hr