France test radio noise, 'young buffalo po' will automatically be fined

Roaring motorbikes running through neighborhoods, engines roaring and waking up every sleeping child will soon become a thing of the past in France.

A suburb of Paris is testing a new system that can identify these roars, identify their location and automatically assign a ticket to them.

The "noise detection radar" was installed on a lamppost in the center of Villeneuve-le-Roi, a town next to Paris Orly airport.

It will be activated as soon as a new government bill authorizing such systems is approved, Mayor Didier Gonzales said. The town will link the audio recordings to the police's CCTV and automatically assign a ticket for the offender.

Roaring motorbikes running through residential areas, roaring engines will soon become a thing of the past in France.

"Noise is a major factor in the health of modern life. It hurts people, harms like passive smokers," said Gonzales, who also heads the anti- Bruitparif noise pollution says.

The bill, expected to be voted this fall, will allow local governments to test systems to record drivers who make noise beyond the limit. France has laws restricting vehicle noise, but it's hard to enforce because it relies on police to arrest individuals offenders.

"We have no intention of opposing Ferrari or Harley Davidson, but the owners of these cars sometimes want to prove the power of the car and the noise really causes trouble for residents , " Remy Jourdan, the official. said by Villeneuve.

The new device has four microphones measuring the decibel noise level every one tenth of a second and can locate where the sound comes from. With this tool, it's no wonder who made the noise!

Nearly 40 such devices have been operating for a few months near busy bars in the amusement parks in Paris and 17 other devices have been installed at major construction sites.

Bruitparif is starting to monitor vehicle noise and has also installed one in Saint-Forget, a mountainous, rural area near Paris famous for its many motorcyclists. In September, they will install two devices in central Paris.

According to Reuters, so far, the system is only in trial mode and no penalty has been issued, but Villeneuve contacted the Ministry of Transport to activate it as soon as the new law was passed. The French government has a two-year test plan to test the technology and determine the noise level for fines.