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That sounds more like an argument for effective inspections being universally required more than anything else? Apologies if I've misinterpreted.

jimmaswell 5y ago
We 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 ago
  Death 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 ago
    It'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 ago
      Fuel-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 ago
        Battery 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.
        dredmorbius 5y ago
        "Parked Teslas Keep Catching on Fire Randomly, And There's No Recall In Sight" https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catching-on-fire-randomly-and-theres-no-recall-in-sight https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catch... Article list 9 cases. None involved accidents. Several were during charging, one during transport (on a flatbed truck). All are of

jimmaswell 5y ago

We 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 ago
Death 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 ago
  It'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 ago
    Fuel-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 ago
      Battery 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.
      - dredmorbius 5y ago
        "Parked Teslas Keep Catching on Fire Randomly, And There's No Recall In Sight" https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catching-on-fire-randomly-and-theres-no-recall-in-sight https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catch... Article list 9 cases. None involved accidents. Several were during charging, one during transport (on a flatbed truck). All are of