Exhaust systems; regulation of noise from vehicle on a highway, etc. (HB632)

It’s great to see this bill out there, but how will it be enforced if “No law-enforcement officer shall stop a motor vehicle for a violation of this section”?

Cars modified to emit loud engine sounds are a plague in Fairfax county. There is no reason to have to listen to ridiculously loud cars in addition to other traffic noise. I applaud the House of Delegates for taking action to curb unnecessary vehicle noise, but I think stronger enforcement measures should be taken. Perhaps some kind of reporting hotline for citizens to report the tag numbers of overly loud cars? Then when the cars are inspected, these citizen reports can help flag cars for fines or some other enforcement mechanism.

These obnoxious exhausts really have become a serious nuisance in Fairfax, and so I'm very happy to hear that an effort is underway to change the law to make them illegal, as they should have been from the very beginning. Hoping this speeds through the approval process quickly.

Yes it should be illegal. They are annoying & disturbing our peace even on late nights where most people are sleeping

More of this please and stricter, stricter, stricter. Why should we have to deal with noise pollution just so some inconsiderate individual can feel macho with their ridiculous and useless exahust.

There are far, far more people who are annoyed and tormented by this problem than are openly vocal about it.

I have PTSD so I follow it more closely, but I have been tracking and reading sentiment on it for 7 years. It's not just local to Virginia, it's a car plague across the whole world with a subculture of mostly young male sociopaths who will do anything to both impress each other and to get attention of any sort, from strangers. It's heavily correlated to toxic male attitudes too--women largely don't participate in this, nor do most educated or considerate men.

Municipalities across the world are beginning to fight back with acoustic camera tech and bills/laws that will enforce a win/win between the safety/security/peace/freedom of the vast majority of citizens who want to live free of selfish noise pollution, as well as the state and the police, who can profit from automatically ticketing violators, just as we did with red light cameras years ago.

Looking forward to a version of the future where towns get more and better funding every single time some loud jerk drives through, same as with red light runners.