Re:Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air poll...
by B1FIDO on Sunday January 25, 2026 @09:14AM
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My home is located very close to a six-lane stroad. Two of those lanes are light rail tracks. It's 8 lanes if you count the bikes.
There are cars that zoom through, practically every night, whose cats or mufflers are seriously wack. And probably on purpose. They put off some awful percussive noise as they vroom along, and it sounds like they are speeding (speed limit here is 35mph).
There are also fireworks going off fairly often now. Since Christmas definitely. They are not the legal ones: somehow people smuggle out the rockets and the flying airburst ones, and set them off in our parking lot, or very nearby.
I am fairly sure that I heard authentic gunfire on NYE.
My hypothesis is that the cars are deliberately making "rat-a-tat-tat" noises that sound sorta like gunfire, in order to cover or mask real gunfire, should it ever occur. That the motorists with those cars are probably gangstas who are assigned to just lay down aural cover for whatever hijinks may or may not transpire that night.
There are cars that zoom through, practically every night, whose cats or mufflers are seriously wack. And probably on purpose. They put off some awful percussive noise as they vroom along, and it sounds like they are speeding (speed limit here is 35mph).
There are also fireworks going off fairly often now. Since Christmas definitely. They are not the legal ones: somehow people smuggle out the rockets and the flying airburst ones, and set them off in our parking lot, or very nearby.
I am fairly sure that I heard authentic gunfire on NYE.
My hypothesis is that the cars are deliberately making "rat-a-tat-tat" noises that sound sorta like gunfire, in order to cover or mask real gunfire, should it ever occur. That the motorists with those cars are probably gangstas who are assigned to just lay down aural cover for whatever hijinks may or may not transpire that night.