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Most everywhere here in the States has stopped doing any form of yearly vehicle examination, and the police in most places won't pull you over for anything relating to vehicle issues unless it's either seriously egregious or they have nothing better to do (sometimes not even then, like my local PD, who has been doing effectively nothing for the past 3 years ever since a police reform law was talked about.)
Is this true? We have annual inspections in Pennsylvania.
It is. Only 15 states have a periodic inspection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States
Kentucky is laughable. It's literally only "inspected" if you bought the car from out of state, and the inspection was $15, and a sheriff comes out tells you to step on the brakes and turn your headlights and emergency lights on. You need 1 working headlight, any one working tail light, (yes you'll pass with just that tiny one in the center of your rear window,) and any two indicator lights to pass. The guy that did mine kicked my tires and said, "yep, it's a car."
For $15? I'd expect a little dance or something as well, that doesn't seem like a good value for your money.
Yeah but who is a poorly maintained car gonna kill besides its occupants in a state like KY. Hell even emissions in a state that sparse. Juice ain’t worth the squeeze.
Here in Maryland, my car, that I bought new in 1999, has technically never needed a safety inspection. Emissions every two years, but no safety. Isn't that a fun thought? If I were to sell it, it would need to be inspected then (and it's a pretty thorough inspection), but otherwise...nah.
I keep it in better condition and would never let the tires get to this point. A few months ago, I replaced a set of tires because they had aged out, and even that was longer than I usually like to keep them. But not everyone has the money or inclination (or insanity) to keep a car that old in good condition.
But, statistically, there's little evidence that safety inspections reduce crashes which kind of makes you wonder whether it's really worth it. It's one of those things that seems logical, but the statistics may not bear that out. At most, it's only a small improvement, not a drastic difference.
I haven't had an inspection in over twenty years.
We have emission checks for newly titled cars (purchase/transfer) in Georgia and Kansas. Nothing else.
Oh wow. I could understand them not caring if only your own life was at stake, but it's not. Here we had people try to go around the inspection process, but now all the places that do these inspections (privately owned by the way) have to have live camera feeds of the vehicle from different angles and submit photos and graphs of the vehicle status before being able to issue a sticker.
And here I am complaining about someone's light not being tuned properly while people drive with this kind of tires.
Probably living paycheck to paycheck or on the tail end of a delivery driver career as you find out that car maintenance is not free.
Not an excuse if other people can lose lives. There are used tires, cheaper tires, public transport, car pooling, etc.
One person's unacceptable excuse is another's meager existence. I'm not saying it's right, just calling out how it gets there.