I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
I think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
"Try" to hurt?
Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard.
If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even.
The double standards around motor vehicles never cease to amaze.
Wtf people are doing this on purpose? What's wrong with people?
The "people" doing this are exactly the type of people you'd expect...
Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY
Wait, this isn't something that they configure the truck to do all the time? They can turn it on and off?
I thought this was some shitty way of being "special", like a loud exhaust, but being able to turn it on and off to gas people is downright evil.
It's not a "switch" per-se (though some of the kits have realtime tuning switches to make more/less smoke on demand).
It's a purposely poorly-turned engine + accelerator control.
TL;DR: poor turning, and floor it (high RPM).
This video gives a pretty good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTnnJ7xMv8
Ah, even worse, you can gas people and your engine pollutes normally as well.
I didn't think people would be this shitty, but here we are.
A nasty combo of sadism and tribalism and stupidity.
Chest-thumping