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> Do delivery cars, scooters, trucks not produce noise?

There are a lot of existing laws about aircraft noise that cars, trucks and scooters don't need to worry about. And once you reach a certain number of takeoffs and landings your "airport" falls under additional regulations that require things like permanent noise monitoring and paying money for noise abatement for nearby property owners.

In my state, any citizen can file a public nuisance suit for unreasonable noise that interferes with quality of life. With trucks, cars and scooters it is perhaps a little difficult to track and attribute noise sources. One company making thousands of drone deliveries makes for a very easy target.



And there are separate laws for cars and truck noise too.

* California limits exhaust noise to 95 dBa: http://www.californiacarlaws.com/exhaust-noise/

* Colorado has a subjective standard "prevent any excessive or unusual noise" https://law.justia.com/codes/colorado/2016/title-42/regulati...

* Connecticut has a pretty complicated scheme depending on the vehicle's weight and age, as well as the road surface: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/rpt/2009-R-0205.htm

* Delaware has a subjective standard: "muffler in good working order and in accordance with manufacturer's specifications and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise." https://law.justia.com/codes/delaware/2015/title-21/chapter-...

There are, of course, laws about other sources of noise too. Ask any college kid.


* California limits exhaust noise to 95 dBa: http://www.californiacarlaws.com/exhaust-noise/

The level of enforcement for this has to be something like zero....




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