[news] Study Links Preference For Loud Cars to Some Unsurprising Personality Traits

[jthompson]

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-preference-for-loud-cars-to-some-unsurprising-personality-traits

 

Psychologist Julie Aitken Schermer of the University of Western Ontario in Canada analyzed over 500 people to investigate the relationship between 'dark' personality traits and a preference for loud cars with modified mufflers.

 

"As these exhaust modifications are both a disturbance to people and animals and are illegal in some jurisdictions… understanding who wants their vehicle to be loud is an interesting research question," Schermer wrote.

 

"We found that it was sadism and psychopathy predicting who wants to modify their mufflers, who feels more connected to their vehicle, and [who thinks] loud cars are really cool,"

[mavhc]

I always thought it was because they were 5 and wanted their cars to go Brum Brum

[LeMarchand]

But if you live your life a quarter mile at a time, you gotta let people know that someone who drives FASTLY and FURIOUSLY is coming.

 

P.S. I was expecting certain physical correlations, too.

[Andrew_C]

Same physical condition as an indited ex-president? Allegedly.

[PotNoodleTech]

I must be a really good boy then as my car makes zero noise!

[LeMarchand]

A BMW with such an exhaust roared past me the other day. Plate ended in PRX.

[DaveTheTech]

*Looks sheepishly at his bikes exhaust*

The baffle fell out on its own, honest. And its a coincidence that it fell onto a high shelf, in time for the next MOT.

[PotNoodleTech]

*Looks sheepishly at his bikes exhaust*

The baffle fell out on its own, honest. And its a coincidence that it fell onto a high shelf, in time for the next MOT.

 

Bikes are some of the worst offenders TBH.

[mavhc]

get electric bike, wear headphones, pipe stupid loud noises into your own head