For homeowners struggling with loud modified exhausts echoing through their neighborhood, change may be on the horizon through automated technology—change, and a very familiar privacy debate.
Noise cameras are popping up in at least 10 U.S. cities, using microphones and license plate readers to catch loud vehicles and issue big fines.
Charlotte drivers could soon face a new kind of traffic enforcement, and it has nothing to do with speed. City leaders are now weighing whether noise cameras should become the next tool used to target ...
Just look up and you'll see cameras everywhere in society whether they're mounted on buildings or traffic lights. Half the time we don't even see them because they're common place. They're snapping ...
WEST HAVEN — If a vehicle is loud enough to turn the city’s streets into an impromptu concert, drivers may soon learn about a special guest sitting in the balcony: automated cameras tracking ...
Even with a stock exhaust, you and your performance car of choice could have the privilege of paying the City of New York $800 for a noise violation. Thanks to a new noise violation pilot program ...
Some privacy advocates say the cameras, intended to pick up muffler noise, loud music and horns, could be used to listen to just about anything.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — On Monday, the Charlotte City Council public safety committee discussed the possibility of installing noise cameras to crack down on loud vehicles, specifically ...
A Connecticut law allowing communities to use technology to detect excessive vehicle noise and issue citations is beginning to take effect in some municipalities. West Haven officials recently ...
A dozen city “noise cameras” secretly monitoring for loud motorcycles, honking cars and music-blasting vehicles have doled out more than $1.7 million in fines in the past few years, The Post has ...