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Good thing the author isn't in Norway, I guess. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to keep his car which clearly has a lot of sentimental value to him. Also, Norwa
by bityard 3y ago
Good thing the author isn't in Norway, I guess. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to keep his car which clearly has a lot of sentimental value to him.
Also, Norway should consider dropping mandatory passenger vehicle inspections as mechanical malfunctions are a tiny percentage of accident causes (and might be lower than officially reported by police) and it has been shown that they do nothing to increase actual on-the-road safety:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1319&context=fhssconference_studentpub https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=...
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812115 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
https://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2019/06/do-mandatory-vehicle-inspections-really-make-us-safer/ https://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2019/06/do-mandatory-veh...
- jacquesm 3y agoThey make the car industry a ton of money though so I don't expect them to go away any time soon.
- speedgoose 3y agoYour data says about 2% of the crashes. Seems very much worth it. And the test also checks the pollution or reduces the annoyances to other drivers (such as too high headlights, broken light indicators, smelly vehicles,…).