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Amen. Where I live, the biggest traffic noise is mopeds with tuned exhausts driven by obnoxious 15-year olds late at night. They're louder than most racing cars I've heard. Certainly much much louder than the V8 cars at the muscle car garage not far from where I live.

You can drive a moped at 15 yo, limited to 50cc engine and 45 km/h. The latter is often circumvented by boring the exhaust and it makes them super loud (and illegal). Lots of parents in rural areas and faraway suburbs buy their kids mopeds at 15 so they don't have to be driven around.



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