I disagree. maybe for diesel vehicles like this, but for most vehicles such programs are not effective. We killed ours off completely a while back.
Decades ago in another state, my car was slightly out spec for the year, and it costed me $1,200 to fix. At the time I was living on my own and made $9/hour. I needed my vehicle to go to work to earn a living. I was
lucky enough to be able to get a loan from a friend.
The only thing inspections lead to is a tax on the poor, just like most other types of vehicle citations.
The only way such a program is acceptable to me is if there were some mechanism to get your vehicle “repaired” at no cost to you.
I mean, you have a point, but the counter is that these vehicles are literally not safe to drive either. There’s no easy perfect solution, I think we should regulate cars, I’ve seen some real POS cars on the road that shouldn’t be
You’re absolutely right, but this argument about a “tax on the poor” is used to justify everything that’s wrong with cars. We need to solve this properly with a social safety net and alternatives to cars.
This and people getting profiled and harassed. So many stories of people in bone stock cars getting pulled over, stopped for long periods of time because an officer thinks they might have something illegal installed. People moding cars like this will most likely just pay someone to pass the test because that’s exactly how people get around these tests now.
I disagree. maybe for diesel vehicles like this, but for most vehicles such programs are not effective. We killed ours off completely a while back.
Decades ago in another state, my car was slightly out spec for the year, and it costed me $1,200 to fix. At the time I was living on my own and made $9/hour. I needed my vehicle to go to work to earn a living. I was lucky enough to be able to get a loan from a friend.
The only thing inspections lead to is a tax on the poor, just like most other types of vehicle citations.
The only way such a program is acceptable to me is if there were some mechanism to get your vehicle “repaired” at no cost to you.
I mean, you have a point, but the counter is that these vehicles are literally not safe to drive either. There’s no easy perfect solution, I think we should regulate cars, I’ve seen some real POS cars on the road that shouldn’t be
You’re absolutely right, but this argument about a “tax on the poor” is used to justify everything that’s wrong with cars. We need to solve this properly with a social safety net and alternatives to cars.
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This and people getting profiled and harassed. So many stories of people in bone stock cars getting pulled over, stopped for long periods of time because an officer thinks they might have something illegal installed. People moding cars like this will most likely just pay someone to pass the test because that’s exactly how people get around these tests now.