[stared]

Personally, I would favor "noise tax" for any noise generated, regardless of the reason. (I may be biased, I am noise-sensitive.)

In this case, it will put pressure to avoid, or reduce, noise when possible (as it directly lowers costs). It's not only cars - all neighbors with a passion for loud music (or quarrels), repair works taking longer and louder than necessary.

[etrautmann]

I absolutely detest Harley's and other loud motorcycles and don't understand why there are no restrictions on vehicular noise. Why do certain individuals get to impose their absurdly loud vrooms on everyone else just because they want to? It's such a trivially stupid negative externality that has no reason to exist.

[alonmower]

There are. They can and should be ticketed if they remove their mufflers or put in exhausts above the legal limit but lots of them DGAF

[sp332]

Harley Davidson was held sued by the EPA for selling aftermarket "offroad-only" parts for customers' daily drivers. https://article.images.consumerreports.org/prod/content/dam/...

[angry_octet]

This is the whole point of riding around on a vibrating sex toy -- to be obnoxious to everyone else, to shout 'look at me'.

[alextheparrot]

If someone had to pay $1 to use their car horn I think we’d have much better drivers as well

[jacquesm]

Most Romanian drivers would be bankrupt within a day or so.

[ghaff]

There's always going to be a lot of noise in dense areas. It doesn't even have to be a city. Any buildings with shared walls too.