You all probably know what I mean. You are driving down a quiet city street when you feel and hear the deep boom coming from a nearby car.
This has happened to me several times in the past week and I am wondering if there is anything electronic I can do to jam / explode/ nullify the sound?
Ideally I would like to flip a switch in my vehicle and burn out their woofer, but that is probably not a good (or possible) idea.
Any ideas of how to deal with this?
EDIT: Nevermind....that link doesn't have any definite solutions. But I still think it is possible!
Maybe some of the genius on this forum can figure it out.
If it were legal...a well-placed .22 into the radio of the offending car.
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I admit it is indeed a problem.
But by the title of your post, I thought you meant something else. And my mind automatically said, "Of course, you step on the brake."
There has been research done on various methods of containing, deflecting, or channeling sound waves, but I don't know specifics.
I don't know the legalities of this, but here's a thought. I know it's illegal to display a blue light or impersonate a police officer, but what if you somehow managed to either (A) mount a siren in your personal vehicle, or (B) make a high-def recording of a police siren and have it handy to play over your stereo at high decibels. So then, if you pull up behind a BOOM BOOM BOOM car at a stop light, and it's annoying you, just let rip with the siren. The first thing the perpetrator in front of you will do, is to look panicedly in the rear view mirrow (RVM). However, what he will see is you, in your civilian car, looking all around you in a [fake] panic, "looking" for the source of the siren. With any luck, they will pop their clutch and run the red light. If not, at least you give them a taste of their own medicine.
What you don't want to happen is for (A) them to figure out that you are the source of the sound, or (B) have an actual police officer notice what's going on and get involved.
In fact, probably better not try this, as fun as it might be. :-\
tyb525 - yes that .22 is a good idea, but would no doubt cause much more trouble than I wish to invite.
I'm with you, this must be possible electronically. We just need to find the right genius to show us how.
At least I'm not the only one annoyed by the problem.
Let's see what else comes up in the next few days.
It would be nice if you could buy a easy button.
A well placed small thermal nucular device will mess up electrical devices.
But then you will need to be a distance and then some away
I wonder if there is some way to set up a car to discretely spray a small stream of skunk musk toward a vehicle beside, in front, or behind it? ::)
Oh, uh, just thinking out loud.
I doubt that a sound would get thier attention but I really like the skunk idea. Package it in small paintballs in a small paintball gun ..... heck... a slingshot would work !!!
Do I see any volunteers for making the 'smellballs' ???
I guess I'm more tolerant. If someone wants to blow their eardrums, go for it. ;D
I think the worse part is when a car pull up and they're two or three behind you and you can FEEL the "music".
I have a nephew that plays his "music" just a boomin' and I informed him that he is never to pull his car into my driveway with it turned on.
His reply was "it sounds really cool", my reply was "WHAT"!
that is very annoying sound, i just gripe and move on...... but if you want to spray something on someone that is easy. just put a windshield washer unit under your hood and fill the new tank with your choice of smell good/bad. put the outlet squirter thru the grill of your truck. test it with water until you get the thing adjusted for volume and accuracy. ;D
Get your hands on a small, military grade EMP :)
There's a legal solution. Most places have ordinances prohibiting excessively loud exhaust systems. An enterprising judge down in Mississippi declared that loud exhausts and loud speakers are one and the same...ticket time...
Quote from: pineywoods on April 27, 2012, 11:29:46 AM
There's a legal solution. Most places have ordinances prohibiting excessively loud exhaust systems. An enterprising judge down in Mississippi declared that loud exhausts and loud speakers are one and the same...ticket time...
I was going to keep quiet until Piney brought this up.
Well now i will jump in and open up a real can of worms. I agree I dont like the loud music, and it happens occasionaly but a lot more frequently its a motorcycle with super loud exhaust that gets my goat. Now I am not downing motorcycles, I dont have one but see where they would be nice. In amy area I would be safe in saying 85%-90% of the motorcycles on the road have exhaust louder than a motorist could LEGALLY run on an automobile.
Okay kicking the soap box back into the middle of the room.
James.
SwampDonkey:
I agree they can ruin their ears if they want. It is just that I don't like to have it so loud that I can't hear in my own car.
You are correct, what they want to do in their own life is not a concern to me, but when it starts to become an annoyance in my life, then I'm looking for an opportunity to make their sound go away as long as they are near me.
Lots of interesting thoughts so far, but nothing that I really think I could use.
I was hoping for something like a noise cancelling set of ear phones that would cancel their noise in a radius of 50 feet around my car. Probably not possible (at least within my price range).
woodhick
I HEAR ya!!
Noisy mufflers were a problem in my home town in the 50's. They don't seem to be much of a fad anymore. But the Boom Boom ers are annoying, but they too will fad e away.
RPG's RPG's Yeah that ought to do it! Rpg's
It's not the boom boom that annoys it's more I can't hear the rattles in my own vehicle .
If ya can't beat'em......join them. :D
The loud noise is not bad,but I don't care to "feel" the music. Too much bass for me.
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 27, 2012, 10:03:00 PM
If ya can't beat'em......join them. :D
I did this when I lived in Virginia.. got tired of the loud rap music at stop lights so I went and got a setup and played country. Funny how they turn it down when your country music is drowning out their rap music.. :D
RF interference will take care of it within a short distance around you.. get a CB radio with a good 750 or so watt amp.. it kills the music and you can even talk over over their speakers with it!! ;)
Just don't let the FCC catch you.. it'll get expensive FAST.. :-\
We had a student work for us a few years back. His little car costs less than half of what the stereo cost. Every morning you could hear him comming down the highway from over a mile away.
I told him that if he ever came in the driveway and I couldn't hear his engine running...... the car WOULD be worth more than the stereo..
Smart lad, always turned it down 1/4 mile away.
Quote from: Clam77 on April 27, 2012, 10:29:34 PM
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 27, 2012, 10:03:00 PM
If ya can't beat'em......join them. :D
I did this when I lived in Virginia.. got tired of the loud rap music at stop lights so I went and got a setup and played country. Funny how they turn it down when your country music is drowning out their rap music.. :D
How about-- Beethoven. That would get some looks.
The military suggestions have me smiling since before I retired last year my title at work was "Cheif, Experimental Fabrication, U.S. Army Research Lab, Weapons and Materials". I will not suggest anything!
Wow what a bunch of old fuddy duddies, could care less how loud your car stereo or muffler is.
I guess this shows how old we're getting!
I'm only lower middle-aged, and I hate it too.
I like loud mufflers, and loud country and rock n roll, but NOT rap! Especially when it's so bad both your car and theirs are rattling from it! They have no clue what a GOOD sound system sounds like, you can hear all of the music, the bass is not overwhelming. These kids think if you get a giant subwoofer and keep your stock speakers you have an "awesome" sound system.
Norm, can you deal with it cause you are far from the road or that you can take the battery out and not hear it ??? ;D :)
Quote from: davidv on April 27, 2012, 10:51:36 AM
Get your hands on a small, military grade EMP :)
My buddy built a EMP deal, It was neat.. only cost me $500 bucks to get my truck to run after we tried it out
I have a step son that likes it, i know when hes coming over the dog starts waging his tale an hes still 5 miles away.
Just a daft idea.
A huge boat siren as your car's horn.
Or sheer violence, baseball bat and smash their car up ;D
Put a locomotive horn under your hood....when you are behind or beside them...honk :o
Looks like satamax got to it a little before me!
Get yourself some big honkin speakers in your vehicle and blare some good old country back at them! That should drive them off!
poor distracted drivers bother me more than alittle bass coming from some ones car. ;)
Quote from: red oaks lumber on April 28, 2012, 08:50:11 PM
poor distracted drivers bother me more than alittle bass coming from some ones car. ;)
You should see some of the stuff i see each week! I could write a book about the stupid people and the things i have seen them do! Driving truck you see it all!!!! ;D
Quote from: red oaks lumber on April 28, 2012, 08:50:11 PM
poor distracted drivers bother me more than alittle bass coming from some ones car. ;)
A few days ago I was coming north through Travelers Rest on US 25, and for those of you who don't know, that is a four-lane divided highway with partially limited access. Traffic was backed up at a stop light by the Spinx (gas station), but I was turning right, so I sneaked by the backup on the shoulder to get in the right turn lane. Then I saw the cause of the backup. The traffic was waiting for an old lady who had evidently come from the crossroad and turned left into the oncoming traffic side of the highway instead of going across to the far side as she was supposed to. There she was in her station wagon, hesitantly backing up and turning around. . . . . . . :-\ 45 mph speed limit there but many people go faster. . . . .
when i was a teenager most of the police did not like loud mufflers and the judge would back them up. a friend of mine bought a new car in the 60s he got a ticket for loud mufflers. he tried to tell the judge that the mufflers was the ones that came from the factory and must be legal. the judge agreed but charged him with disturbing the peace and the cost was the same. some people just cant win. :D
Spray nozzle full of hot roof tar to coat they're windshield. :D
What kills me, in my area, the cops will stop some 20 year old gearhead in a hopped up Mustang with loud pipes, but they'll let the dirtbag wearing gang "colors" on a harley with open pipes go. Who do you think is more likely to have outstanding warants?
This same thing annoyed me badly enough that many years ago, I made plans to design a targeted EMP pulse. Then good sense got hold of me. It is illegal and not a decent way to deal with the problem.
The RF interference idea is a great one. No permanent damage. Would it be possible to choose an open band frequency powerful enough to do the job? Probably not but at least you wouldn't have to worry about the FCC. Hmmmm. I may have to study this. I bet you could get one of those small handheld dishes so you could specifically target your signal. Less chance of getting on the bad side of the FCC. Ideas, ideas. :)
Norm, I used to feel the same way until I realized I have the right to not have my body damaged just because someone else wants to damage themselves. ;)
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on April 29, 2012, 08:56:44 PM
Spray nozzle full of hot roof tar to coat they're windshield. :D
What kills me, in my area, the cops will stop some 20 year old gearhead in a hopped up Mustang with loud pipes, but they'll let the dirtbag wearing gang "colors" on a harley with open pipes go. Who do you think is more likely to have outstanding warants?
Mufflers, or lack of them, fine by me. Usually some good 'ol boys that like their cars/trucks. But the dirtbags wearing gang colors with their bass so loud it hurts my ears 3 cars behind them, that's what I have a problem with. And I've never seen or heard of them getting any consequences in this area.
I hate driving a truck., Not really but I was in one of our old Steel nose DM Macks. I wa going to pick up some dumpsters at an auction. This old truck was rough it was dads winter trucks so the nice ones didnt get torn up. The company that bought our trucks we kept one a steel nose for a while. It had a bad cab rust all through it. THe exhaust came out beside the passenger side front pull axle. I was stopped at a light. This little punk and his Girl friend were in a Miata. You couldnt even hear the engine in my truck over it. He was stuck between a few cars and his window was even with my pipes. I pulled the park brake and pulled the hand throttle out and let them breath the 2 gallons of fuel conditioner I put in that morning. .
:D :D :D too funny Taylor!!
Quote from: Warbird on April 30, 2012, 11:54:16 AM
The RF interference idea is a great one. No permanent damage. Would it be possible to choose an open band frequency powerful enough to do the job? Probably not but at least you wouldn't have to worry about the FCC. Hmmmm. I may have to study this. I bet you could get one of those small handheld dishes so you could specifically target your signal. Less chance of getting on the bad side of the FCC. Ideas, ideas. :)
I was using the 10/11 meter bands but the FCC was always busy somewhere else. They're kind of like all the other enforcment agencies - they don't bother with you unless you do something right in front of them or someone complains.
I'd like someone to invent a transmitter that broadcast the emergency broadcast system sound over their speakers at the level they have them set at. Either that, or some sort of Tesla wireless energy device that would actually intensify their bass until their speakers blow.
I think they forgot the "C" in rap ;D