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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Noise cameras? They're called MICROPHONES

[–] Codilingus 22 points 1 year ago

But they need a camera to grab the license plate of the offending vehicle....

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure if this a joke. Noise cameras are a real thing. They use an array of microphones to show which parts of an image are emitting sound and at what level.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I read it as being a riff off of "speed" cameras, which are obviously cameras triggered by speed and not cameras that capture the concept of speed on film.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the cameras are supposed to be triggered by noise