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Post by marysol5 »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #289
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #250

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I live in a country with mandatory (mostly-)yearly car inspections (and all other motor vehicles). Many time you don't even know that there's an issue and they only find it during the inspection. Handbrake works only on one side, normal brakes don't work properly on one of the wheels, there's play in one of the joints or tie rods, etc. You park, pull the handbrake, you have no idea that if you parked on an incline, y…

And yet somehow in the US states that don't have inspections things keep working. It's not as though we don't have statistics regarding the causes of traffic incidents.

"Keep working", or people get injured, or die at higher rates due to faulty vehicles on the road.

US road infrastructure is pretty bad at the best of times, highways are devoid of safety and notification systems. Hence why MASSIVE pile ups are a thing

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Post by marysol5 »

kortilla wrote: post #273
kube-system wrote: post #187

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Vehicle regulation in the US is piss poor. Here's the full list of states that require all passenger vehicles to be inspected for safety and emissions every year: * New York * Massachussets * Vermont

I wouldn’t say it’s piss poor in the entire US just because it is draconian in those 3 states.

"draconian"

Jesus christ

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Post by marysol5 »

cyberge99 wrote: post #66
cogman10 wrote: post #41

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I'm in Idaho, so not such resource exists. It would have to be a federal agency that does the enforcement because our cops/prosecutors/lawmakers won't ever make something like that happen.

You can take temporary comfort knowing that it’s costing them $7 per gallon for that little asshole stunt. It seems you have to he is especially insecure to intentionally want to burn smoke on someone else. Especially when Tesla’s have a BioWeapon air filtration setting.

The "freedom fighters" who love to cuck themselves to oil barons and hand over their cash, rather then building themselves energy independence systems.

They will never cease to boggle my tiny mind

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Post by marysol5 »

tokai wrote: post #251
porknubbins wrote: post #240

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I don’t known if its the heat or lack of greenery but everything I hear about riding bikes or motocycles in Texas just makes it sounds like there is some deep latent aggression there. I have bicycled in a bunch of states including the Southeast and never encountered anything like the stories people tell about Texas.

Open up any kind of cycling content on social media and you see droves of comment literally calling for killing cyclists. Turns out some people are just ontologically evil.

Same with the UK too, there's a semi-famous guy who regularly posts recordings of drivers on their phones etc.

And the sheer amount of hatred he gets, alongside the threats. You'd think he was head of ISIS or something

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Post by marysol5 »

hughdbrown wrote: post #100
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #25

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For those, like me, who aren't familiar with the term "rolling coal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

I had a driver in a Ford F-150 do this in front of me last week as he pulled away from a light. The smoke totally blacked out the windshield for 5 seconds while I was in motion. I was totally blinded by this. I had no idea this was a thing, much less that it was something people did on purpose.

Had a car in front of me have a rapid deconstruction of the engine in front of me while driving down a motorway.

Driving into a ploom of steam and smoke, while also being hit with fragments was terrifying.

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Post by marysol5 »

kortilla wrote: post #274
KennyBlanken wrote: post #155

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"Try" to hurt? Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard. If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on th…

> If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even. No you wouldn’t. You’ve just described 2nd hand smoke which you can easily get hit with walking down any sidewalk in the US.

Doing an intentional act, vs a passive outcome is two differing things

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Post by tpm »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #289
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a country with mandatory (mostly-)yearly car inspections (and all other motor vehicles). Many time you don't even know that there's an issue and they only find it during the inspection. Handbrake works only on one side, normal brakes don't work properly on one of the wheels, there's play in one of the joints or tie rods, etc. You park, pull the handbrake, you have no idea that if you parked on an incline, y…

And yet somehow in the US states that don't have inspections things keep working. It's not as though we don't have statistics regarding the causes of traffic incidents.

There is a world of difference between keeping working and working safely.

I don't know about technical and emmission inspections in the US but in our country they also check stuff like properly aligned headlights so you don't blind other cars, the brakes, geometry etc., and I'm pretty sure without those check the cars would drive on the roads and cause safety issues.

> For emissions, again who cares.

Well for example removing a DPF from a diesel car which was popular sport for a time and driving such a car in a densely populated area can be considered directly causing cancer, so a lot of people care about this. And only spot checking for this is ineffective and expensive, though it is done in some countries anyway (Austria I think?).

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Post by alphabeta3r56 »

lacewing wrote: post #207
kube-system wrote: post #187

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Vehicle regulation in the US is piss poor. Here's the full list of states that require all passenger vehicles to be inspected for safety and emissions every year: * New York * Massachussets * Vermont

I used to live in Massachusetts. I'm not sure it's a benchmark to look up to. If buy a brand new car from a dealer, your next stop must be an inspection station - a pointless waste of time and money. But if your car is older than 15 years? You're no longer required to have an annual emissions test. Pretty backwards.

That's temporary though. Or at least was supposed to be temporary to prevent immediately disqualifying existing vehicles

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Post by TitaRusell »

Tangurena2 wrote: post #82
kstrauser wrote: post #34

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I watched a pickup roll coal in the middle of freaking East Bay, literally within site of downtown San Francisco, on a bicyclist. I reported their license to the California Air Resources Board, and not longer after that I saw it up on jacks in a neighborhood auto shop. That made my day. Asshole.

California is rather strict on emissions. Other states don't care. I used to work for my state's version of the DMV and the only public facing page where one could report things was to report people who would not register their cars locally (many people who purchase very expensive cars chose to register them in Montana). There used to be a web page to report license plates that were worn and needed replacing (like th…

Montana doesn't have cities large enough to notice the smog I presume?

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Post by TitaRusell »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #289
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a country with mandatory (mostly-)yearly car inspections (and all other motor vehicles). Many time you don't even know that there's an issue and they only find it during the inspection. Handbrake works only on one side, normal brakes don't work properly on one of the wheels, there's play in one of the joints or tie rods, etc. You park, pull the handbrake, you have no idea that if you parked on an incline, y…

And yet somehow in the US states that don't have inspections things keep working. It's not as though we don't have statistics regarding the causes of traffic incidents.

It's easier if you don't have those pesky cyclists and pedestrians.
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