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The same reason used for WA emissions inspections (since suspended). If your tailpipe emitted 99ppm of pollutants, you were good to go. If it emitted 100ppm, yo
by WalterBright 10mo ago
The same reason used for WA emissions inspections (since suspended). If your tailpipe emitted 99ppm of pollutants, you were good to go. If it emitted 100ppm, you had to get it fixed.
Good ole step functions.
- krisoft 10mo agoI don't get your point about the tailpipe emissions. Of course there is a hard cutoff. What else could there be? Do you want them to gently suggest that you should maybe fix your car above 90ppm, and then rudely suggest from 95ppm? The response they can do is that they either let you use the car or not let you use the car. That is binary. Technically they cannot even do that. All they can do is promise you that if you use your non-compliant car and they find it out they will fine you. Laws are after all just formalised threats backed by force.
- WalterBright 9mo ago> What else could there be? Charge a fee based on the number of ppm's your car emits: tax * ppm = fee to renew your tags Even better would be to look at the odometer reading each year: tax * ppm * miles driven last year = fee to renew your tags