Stock Lamborghini Huracan Ticketed By NYC Noise Camera

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In case you didn’t already know, New York City has been using so-called “noise cameras” to bust modified vehicles for several years now. Similar to speed enforcement cameras, they take a picture of violators, the citation sent to the offender. But one man says his completely stock Lamborghini Huracan was issued just such a citation recently and he’s fighting it.

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More specifically, Anthony Aquilino owns a 2018 Lamborghini Huracan Performante, which he says he hasn’t modified at all, preferring to keep the supercar in factory spec. That’s why he’s mad about the $800 citation for the first offense, supposedly because his vehicle, which is legally registered in the state, is too loud.

For a second offense he faces a whopping $1,700 fine, and it just increases from there. For that reason, Aquilino is suing the city, reports the New York Post. We say it’s high time someone challenges the noise cameras, something which has been exported to Chicago and soon other cities.

That’s the thing with these pushes to regulate noise out of cities: they often are enforced with such ruthlessness that they end up backfiring. In this case, an automated system is making the call about issuing citations. There’s no police officer inspecting the car and realizing it’s just loud right out of the factory instead of something the owner modded to make it louder.

This legal case could throw a monkey wrench into plans to expand the use of noise cameras across the whole of NYC. It might also pause or terminate agendas to get them installed in other cities. We can’t help but think of the pollution cameras used in London last year and how there was serious pushback against those as well.

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