|
ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
 Posted - 11/29/2005 : 13:12:01 [Permalink]
|
In New Jersey, when I was a kid, you had to have your car safety-inspected every year. This was done at State-run inspection centers that were kind of like a car wash- you drove up to one end, handed your car over to the technician, and it eventually came out the other end with a new inspection sticker on the windshield.
Pennsylvania also requires yearly safety inspections, but these are done at service stations which are licensed to perform the inspections. The same goes for the emissions inspection, which must also be done yearly. A PA-registered car will have two windshield stickers- one for the safety inspection and one for the emissions, and since performing the inspections is done by the private sector, there's a black market in those stickers.
Having lived forty years in windshield-sticker states, I was quite surprised when I moved to California. Here, there are no safety or roadworthiness inspections, and the emissions inspection (called a "smog check") only has to be done every two years.
For some reason, I would have expected that a state so married to car culture would be stricter than what I was used to back East, but nooo... |
"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers |
 |
|
Topic Locked
