Depends on local noise ordinances. Here in GA, the locals are complaining about Tannerite explosions. Our "Good Ole Boys" get really heavy-handed with it making exploding targets. Sometimes using all they have just to see and hear how big a BOOM they can make. But we also have the US Army's Fort Stewart ~30+ miles away which is the home base of a mechanized armor division. M1A1 Bradley tanks and motorized howitzers. And you can hear them at times when they are having target practice. And I am ~6 miles east of I-95 and you hear the traffic noise. Car radio noise does have a local ordinance against it and they will ticket you for too loud. We still hear them passing by on the road boomda boomety booming with their amped up woofers. Tannerite is legal and has no local ordinances against it so all the deputies do is ride out to find who is doing it and ask their old high school buddies to tone it down a bit and take a couple of shots while they are there just for the fun of it. But then I do live in a small rural county that doesn't even have a single stoplight in it.

 

Only a few car noise tickets are issued by the police here. The rich kids with the noisy cars simply pay the ticket in the mail and it is just a little tax for them.
The kids who pay to have their expensive cars modified to be noisy should be banned from driving.
The mechanics who modify the cars should be tortured with recorded very loud sounds. The mechanics also remove the pollution controls, blacken the windows and lights, then lower the cars.

 

Only a few car noise tickets are issued by the police here. The rich kids with the noisy cars simply pay the ticket in the mail and it is just a little tax for them.
The kids who pay to have their expensive cars modified to be noisy should be banned from driving.
The mechanics who modify the cars should be tortured with recorded very loud sounds. The mechanics also remove the pollution controls, blacken the windows and lights, then lower the cars.

a little harsh ... but it might prove effective ...

 

The kids who pay to have their expensive cars modified to be noisy should be banned from driving.

Me too. But the thing that bugs the heck out of me is those diesel pickup trucks with the BullyDog Tuners. They tune their fuel to feed more than is necessary. They DO get more power out of it but they also belch that disgusting black smoke (unburnt fuel) and make others breathe that crap.

 

Luckily there are few diesel cars in Canada.
VW got a huge fine for cheating on their diesel cars pollution controls and now make only electric cars.
Recently Hyundai also got fined for cheating on diesel pollution controls.

A few years ago I saw a car smoking very badly. Yep, it was a VW but I think is was made for gasoline but an immigrant put diesel fuel in it.

 

Heh, I remember the days when gasoline was 65 cents/gal and diesel was 10 cents/gal. Mercedes 200Ds were popular. That little (for those days but midsized by today's standards) 4-door 4-person sedan with a 2L 4-banger and stick shift wasn't too bad even on the mountain roads in Tennessee. And they didn't visibly smoke! Certainly not like city buses and semi-trucks were back then.

 

http://instagr.am/p/CgzZjf5DzhT/ ​

 

 

didnot see anything cool in this post

 

There's at least one fairground ride somewhere which uses magnetic braking for a huge vertical drop. Now that's cool.

 

 

 

2010

 

https://peoriacarphunters.com/

 

 

Blue fire, smoking cables

 

Was the electrical fire caused by the cheap class-D Chinese audio amplifier in the other forum that was missing a heatsink?

 

WAY COOL! Those wires were sagging like crazy. Great sign of our infrastructure; yes? No?

 

https://www.cnet.com/science/biolog...oaches-controlled-by-solar-powered-backpacks/
Scientists Create Cyborg Cockroaches Controlled by Solar-Powered Backpacks