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That's not a thing in most of the US.
by mjhay 3y ago
That's not a thing in most of the US.
- WillAdams 3y agoGiven that some 1 in 5 accidents are caused by a lack of maintenance, I would argue that it's a threat to public health/safety that they are not.
- mjhay 3y agoYeah, it's not great. Unfortunately, a car is basically required to hold any kind of job in most of the US, aside from the (expensive) cores of few select cities. That's doubly true for low-income folks. It's effectively impossible to enforce safety regs when a large part of the population simply can't afford to maintain a safe vehicle. The alternative is even worse mass homelessness. For similar reasons, extremely dangerous drivers basically never get their license taken away. I live in a snowy place, and the number of people I see running absolutely bald summer tires in the winter is horrifying.
- WillAdams 3y agoMaybe if the police would enforce the laws for proper equipment we could reduce accidents caused by lack of maintenance and that reduction could result in a savings on insurance which would help make things more affordable. That said, one doesn't have to have a car to get to work --- for almost 5 years, rather than put miles on my truck I rode a bicycle to work, and in the past I've walked to work at need --- hoping to get back to riding to my new job, just waiting for a connecting road through a development to be finished and the ride will become markedly shorter, facilitating this.