Sounds Wrong

BMW have introduced HypersonX - Auto Express report here.

It is a way of changing the noises your electric BMW makes.

BMW says that the system will “embody the pleasure of driving for which BMW is renowned”.

Shouldn't that be “embody the pleasure of driving for which BMW was renowned in the past”.

How can anyone renown driving something like this?:

Or just about anything else in their recent offerings that isn't a 3 or 5 series saloon, coupe or estate?

And how are you supposed to say "HypersonX"?

They will probably go with "Hypersonics"

And yet I keep reading it as, "Hi, person X!"

Not Aloud

Interesting story from Car+Driver today about New Yorkers with loud cars getting letters like this...

They are signed by Mark Page Jr, Acting Director at New York City Department of Environmental Protection.  I looked him up but the only photos I could find were of a completely different Mark Page who made the news last year for altogether different reasons.

The wording of the letter is:

I am writing to you because your vehicle has been identified as having a muffler that is not in compliance with Section 386 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, which prohibits excessive noise from motor vehicles. Your vehicle was recorded by a camera that takes a pictures of the vehicle and the license plate. In addition, a sound meter records the decibel level as the vehicle approaches and passes the camera.

Cameras and microphones working together.

The unfortunate (or deserving - it depends on your point of view) recipient has to go along to a wastewater treatment plant (sewage works) to have their volume measured and, if necessary, get their vehicle quietened down a bit.

I bet there are a load of letters issued on July 4th.

Reading this has given me an urge.

I want to go along to where one of these cameras exists.  I would have a boombox with me.

Which I would switch on at full volume every time a Tesla drives by.