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Looks to me like someone over there wants to make an example of this situation in order to try and avoid it in the future. Sad part is, she probably won’t even take care of her shit in the next life…kid I went to school with just got his 5th DWI…was out of jail for 3 weeks and he was back behind the wheel after putting a few back on a Saturday afternoon…
I think every state should have safety inspections. I don’t need some douchnozzle that can’t be bothered to run safe tires or maintain their car plowing into me on the thruway because a suspension, steering, brake or some other critical component failed.
Gotta disagree here. I’ve lived in no-inspection states and worked in shops in those states. Some of the stuff on the roads are downright scary, like wheels falling off, brake pedal goes to floor, ball joints separating-type of scary. Nope, every state should have some form of vehicle inspection.
Bwhahahaha
I used to think this, then I started driving in FL and MI that don’t require inspections. People fucking suck, and I don’t want to share the road with all the poor ass fucks who if given the chance will drive a vehicle that is completely unsafe because “I can’t afford to fix it” while they text and drive on their iPhone. I like knowing that the 30 year old rusted out F150 tailgating my family has a decent chance that it had brakes at some point in the last year when I see it has NY plates.
^ Exactly.
What a sad/pathetic story…I see both sides of the inspection debate…it really just comes down to common sense…something lost all too often in this country…
After living in Metro-Detroit for 10+ years (MI has no inspection requirements) and seeing the many accidents, broke-down cars, car fires, and insane mods to cars that I have seen through the years versus the past 1.5 years back here of seeing very few of these things (Except much rustier cars), I tend to agree. Most people just don’t know or don’t care enough to properly maintain a car and not having inspections makes the road a more dangerous place than a place that has inspections.
That said, I’m someone who inspects and maintains his own vehicles religiously, so I hate having to waste the time to get my cars inspected.
BINGO.
insurance and police. insurance is mandatory in every state except for new Hampshire if i’m not mistaken. and if police see an unsafe car, pull over, ticket. I absolutely agree that unsafe equipment should be illegal, but the fact that you have to go to a government sanctioned building and have it examined by a person or company that most likely are losing money on every transaction that the government is enforcing is ridiculous.
wait, aren’t you a republican?! lol
you do see a lot of broken down cars in Florida though. I remember driving from Jacksonville to st. Augustine a few times over the course of a week when visiting my dad and there was a crx just sitting on the side of the highway in the same spot with a white bag hanging out of the window. I wonder how long it sat there
haha. im not a crazy lefty. I like to say i’m libertarian with a strong emphasis on the LIB part 
Here’s what I’m taking away.
At A.J.’s Sunoco following the arraignment, Jalbert’s parents, Albert and Joyce Jalbert, said they plan to withhold comment and see how the case plays out in court.
Albert Jalbert.
There’s no way you could shift that responsibility to police. Far too many unsafe conditions (worn suspension, rusted frames, no brakes etc) that simply aren’t visible to a cop sitting in the median or driving in traffic.
This isn’t some theory either. Every state you go to that doesn’t mandate inspections has broken down cars everywhere.
Inspection laws are just common sense because too many in our population doesn’t have any.
This thread is a great example of why I could never be a 100% libertarian. I’m able to recognize that there are occasions where the government has to be the nanny to keep the responsible amongst us safe from the idiots who would run around with bald tires and no brakes just so they could afford smokes and smartphones.
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Another great example. A good friend of mine owned Weitz Family Auto in Cheektowaga on Union. He would tell me all these stories about people coming in with AC not working and he’d find they basically had no brakes, tires showing belts etc. He’d tell them how dangerous this was and they’d be like, “yeah, I’ll get that fixed soon but fix the AC today”. And of course he’d never see that car for further repairs.
you JUST murdered your argument. so your friend is saying that even though we have this great, expensive, headache of a law that THERE ARE STILL UNSAFE CARS ON THE ROAD?!?! OH THE HUMANITY
there are already plenty of laws against unsafe vehicles. a yearly inspection does nothing to curb this problem - you just proved it yourself by quoting your friend. a car can barely pass inspection and then 6 months later the brakes can be metal on metal, corded tires (last I checked a good alignment was not part of the nysi law)
also, im wondering if you’re for the safe act? because vehicle inspections can be compared to gun control laws in a lot of different ways haha. sayn.
Common sense isn’t all too common these days.
maybe the police should randomly inspect all vehicles sort of like when the state troopers set up shop and randomly inspect commercial vehicles…that sure wouldn’t become a huge inconvenience for anyone…probably much less than scheduling an inspection at your leisure once a year…
They should make the speed limit on that hill 30mph and add a bike lane, then this would have never happened!
Not at all. Those cars will be off the road as soon as the inspection is up, instead of driving until they crash and kill someone. Sure, you can argue that people will find someone to slap a sticker on but THATS THE POINT OF THIS THREAD. You throw a few mechanics in jail for manslaughter, or even just charge them and watch them go broke defending themselves, and the number of shops willing to slap a sticker on shrinks considerably. Nothing is ever 100% but that doesn’t mean you just say fuck it, free for all.
And no, I’m not playing your straw man game with the safe act.
And really, if $21 a year is expensive sell your car and ride the bus. If you’re referring to the cost for the shops to buy the equipment, thinking inspections are a money loser, think again. The $21 inspection is a money loser but all the business it generates repairing failed cars more than makes up for the cars that pass. NYS is only giving out so many licenses right now and shops want them so bad existing shops can sell theirs for big money.
yeah, who wants to be like new jersey? gross.
New Jersey discontinued its passenger vehicle safety inspection program on August 1, 2010
97%? of people who own cars use them safely, and repair them properly. They can be deadly otherwise.
99%? of people who own guns use them safely, and store them properly. They can be deadly otherwise.
I know you ignored this earlier. Just a funny comparison I thought up. 
In 2012 large trucks made up 4% of vehicle traffic (from some NHTSA stat I just looked up). Unless you plan to massively increase the number of cops I’m not sure how you’re going to get anywhere near the 100% yearly inspection rate the current system provides.