On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:32:12 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
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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 wri= te a
> >> > lot fewer fix-it tickets, so they can be doing other traffic enforce= ment.
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> >> > Do any states still have periodic safety inspections? When I lived i= n
> >> > 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 t= hem
> >> > 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 sa= id,
> >> > there's no evidence that the inspections led to fewer accidents. >
> >> I think states without vehicle inspections are the minority.
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> >Michigan has neither emissions nor safety inspections. =A0The
> >EPA keeps threatening us with emissions, but I think Lansing
> >knows that they'd be lynched if they messed with people's
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> >Cindy Hamilton
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> Your state receives far less Federal Highway funding if you don't have
> an emissions testing program That's okay, because it means that states
> such as mine that do have it are splitting up what you don't get!- Hide q= uoted text -
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I hope that's true. I know there is some federal angle to forcing the emissions testing reqt. Here in NJ now that the state govt is broke, they are eliminating safety inspections. It had been every 2 years, cut down from every year about 10 years ago. Emissions still have to be done every 2 years on most cars. New cars don't have to be emission tested for 4 years. When I went a couple weeks ago with my
1980 Mercedes 300SD, they told me to go away and NEVER come back. Being an older diesel, they never had checked the emissions on it. They said any diesel older than I think 96 doesn't have to be inspected again. Yipee!