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Given that many places have regular car safety checks (the ‘warrant of fitness’ where I am), it would seem trivial to add this check.
by lostlogin 2y ago
Given that many places have regular car safety checks (the ‘warrant of fitness’ where I am), it would seem trivial to add this check.
- mschuster91 2y agoThe US largely doesn't have that. As a German where you got to have your vehicle inspected for code compliance every two years, watching US dashcam videos is completely amazing - some of the shit you're allowed to put on roads there would yield you actual prison time if you tried it in Germany, and not to mention that there are states that do not require a general liability insurance - here it's mandatory to have coverage for at least 7.5 million euros in healthcare, 1.22 million for property damage and 50.000 € for financial loss (say, lost income because the car of the other party is a work car and they need to rent a replacement). Most insurances go above and beyond, standard is like 50 million € of coverage - to hit that, you'd need to crash into a tanker truck on a bridge which then falls down onto a residential home and exploding, or similar sized catastrophes that almost never happen.
- stavros 2y agoYou'd be surprised at how often people crash into piles of 60m € bills, setting them ablaze.
- LammyL 2y agoHow much does car insurance cost per year in Germany?
- mschuster91 2y agoLiability insurance for a VW Golf with 15 million € coverage around 160€ a year [1], if you want replacement/weather damage coverage it's about 300-400€. New drivers obviously pay (way) more. https://www.cosmosdirekt.de/autoversicherung/vw-golf-7/ https://www.cosmosdirekt.de/autoversicherung/vw-golf-7/
- stavros 2y agoI don't understand how they don't measure exhaust noise levels there! It would at least make it much harder for people to keep the exhaust on if they had to remove it and put it back on for the check.