The Noise Snare is just that — a trap to catch drivers of excessively noisy cars and motorbikes and prove to the world (or maybe just the cops) that they spend their travel time ripping a ragged hole in the peace of other city dwellers.
The trap is simple. A microphone detects loud vehicles and starts a camera which records both video and stereo sound. The driver and his license plate can be read from the footage, and the whole lot used as evidence. The invention, by SNR Systems, works equally well at night and takes pressure off traffic cops, who might not have time to enforce noise laws as they’re too busy harassing cyclists.
I love it, although for me it would be rather pointless. I live in an almost car free part of the old town, where the narrow streets make anything bigger than a bike impractical. The downside of this is that you live stacked up with your neighbors with mere feet between your open windows. What I need is a detector for the kids torturing their baby brother in the flat below, or the old smoker who spends a half hour every morning trying to cough a slimy tar-ball from the depths of his throat.
Noise Snare [Street Noise Reduction Systems via The Giz]
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