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> and is only on the road because someone paid some mechanic off to look the other way during a state vehicle inspection for the past 5 years. Making mechanics
by InvertedRhodium 5y ago
> and is only on the road because someone paid some mechanic off to look the other way during a state vehicle inspection for the past 5 years.
Making mechanics liable - maybe jointly as a business and an individual - for their failure to inspect vehicles properly would be a pretty simple mechanic to reduce this risk.
- jimmaswell 5y agoThese inspections are nothing but pointless revenue generation for the state, checking for the check engine light and inspecting 1 wheel at most usually. Lots of states don't even have them.
- thescriptkiddie 5y agoIn Germany they are very serious about vehicle inspections, and insurance requirements.
- beambot 5y agoDidn't the big German auto manufacturers literally develop the hacks to bypass diesel emissions inspections? I'm not sure I'd hold anyone up in a pedestal on this score...
- brokenmachine 5y agoThey got caught.
- dagw 5y agoNot by any German regulator or agency.
- bildung 5y agoThose have nothing to do with each other: Germany indeed has a company level corruption problem (especially in combination with the conservative party), but pretty low corruption at the citizen level, i.e. where vehicle inspections happen.
- Dylan16807 5y agoThose cars still passed the inspection. Which means they were physically sound. A battery isn't going to shift into an alternate mode where it becomes a spontaneous fire hazard.
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- InvertedRhodium 5y agoThat sounds more like an argument for effective inspections being universally required more than anything else? Apologies if I've misinterpreted.
- jimmaswell 5y agoWe get by fine without rigorous inspections, and they amount to a regressive tax like a lot of other fees related to keeping a car.
- dredmorbius 5y agoDeath by burning from an exploding battery from an uninspected, poorly-mainteained car in the garage of your shared low-rent apartment building is also a regressive tax. I'll take the inspections.
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- jimmaswell 5y agoIt's not like states without inspections have an endemic of exploding cars as it is. I don't think the justification for inspections is really there.
- dredmorbius 5y agoFuel-based cars tend to burn after an extreme adverse event, usually a collision. Battery fires are more frequently spontaneous, or occur during charging. How many barbequed children do you find an acceptable number?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoBattery fires usually happen after collisions too. Fires while charging are rare but they grab headlines because they're novel. I think trying to use inspections to solve that is a case of barking up a really stupid tree. In the case of EV charging fires there's not really much a mechanic can inspect that some electronics cobbled onto the pack couldn't. In the case of battery pack damage an annual inspection isn't going to do much good since most of those cases will cause problems before that or not at all.
- wiredfool 5y agoIn Ireland, roughly half of the vehicles going for the NCT fail on the first try, and ultimately about 5% don’t pass at all after retries. Of that, I’d say half of the initial failures are simple things that don’t require a mechanic, (dead bulbs, bad/low tires) and the rest require a me hanic to do something.
- ineedasername 5y agoMy state has inspections, but does not charge for them.