Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle’s emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Can we please actually enforce the rules on drivers though? These are so obviously illegal yet nothing is done.

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        1 year ago

        Cops pull people over for having something hanging from their rearview mirror. I would think they’d love to be ticketing people for having these things.

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          1 year ago

          It’s a federal emission standard though, not a state one. It’s only illegal to do in New Jersey, Maryland and Maine. Every other state once you own it, you can install these devices, or do a EGR delete entirely if you want to. In states that do emission testing on private vehicles you’d want it to be reversible of course.

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        1 year ago

        Cities have emission standards. Police could try harder if they wanted to.

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          It also fits the bill for reckless driving because it is operating a vehicle while being aware of and consciously disregarding the risk that it may cause harm to others while being a significant deviation from a reasonable person’s standard of conduct. I mean, their intent is clearly to create a bunch of thick smoke as they installed a device for the sole purpose of creating thick smoke, people cannot see through thick smoke, stupid games stupid prizes call in the flatbed

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            1 year ago

            That’s true, beyond the health and environment aspects, they’re obscuring visibility. While some people I talked to said “it’s not toxic bro!” and they don’t believe in climate change, they can’t deny it obscures visibility.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t speak German but I’m guessing they’re ticketing/impounding vehicles that have modifications which violate emissions. Sometimes US cops to that to street racers… the problem is that’s because the average officer doesn’t like kids who modify Asian cars but they basically are the same demographic who would modify a truck.

            As long as we’re talking about that, the street racing and ‘sideshow’ thing is pretty out of control too. I’d be happy to see them step up enforcement on that bullshit.