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>> There has never been a correlation between the number of accidents and
>> (safety) inspections, or lack thereof, demonstrated. They are a
>> license to steal, however.
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>The only advantage to the inspections is that the police have to write a
>lot fewer fix-it tickets, so they can be doing other traffic enforcement.
I'm sure you will provide a citation that shows this correlation.
Do any states still have periodic safety inspections?
Certainly. *MANY* do.
When I lived in
>Florida and they started doing them it was every six months at first.
>Then they changed to every year, then one governor was fed up with them
>and got rid of them entirely. You did notice a lot more cars on the road
>with burned out lights and rusted out exhaust systems, but as you said,
>there's no evidence that the inspections led to fewer accidents.
Yes, as I said, it's a license to steal, but adds nothing demonstrable to safety. A few states have gotten rid of safety inspections for these reasons; no gain, a lot of pain.