With all due respect, sir, I will have to disagree with you. As a former resident of New York state, I lived and worked as a mechanic for quite a few years there. New York, upstate in particular has its own set of problems. Heading the list is rust. Since you DO have annual inspections, I am sure that you can see that they are not effective. Too many places put stickers on with a wink and a nod. A good many inspections are done on the desk in the office. Looking to an inspection program to address the problem of unsafe cars on the road is simply wishful thinking. As a trooper, I am sure that you see your share of crashes, since you are the one that is usually called to the scene first. BUT, it also gives you a serious case of tunnel vision. You see the worst of the worst, and under the worst conditions. In my other post above, I have detailed my reasons for doubting the effectiveness of an annual inspection. A brake pad only needs 2/32 of an inch to pass. Is this enough to last to the next inspection??? Really? And rear shoe on a drum brake only needs 1/32 unless they changed that. Then there is an allowable amount of "play" in a ball joint. As I explained, the most common cause of ball joint failure is failure of the dust boot that also keeps grease in and dirt and water out. Some other failures are simply not predictable. Following a long career as a mechanic, I went into driving tractor trailers for about 20 years. Finally retired from that. After about 2 million miles of commercial driving, I never saw a high frequency of equipment caused crashes in my travels. What I DID see is plain stupidity on the highways. I have seen drivers doing any number of plain stupid things while driving. From a nice high perch, you see a lot of things that you might not otherwise see. Folks reading a newspaper opened up on the steering wheel on their way to work. One woman had a full course meal spread out on the front seat and her lap while doing 65 miles per hour on an expressway. Another reading her new "Cosmo" on the Long Island Expressway as she crashed into the rear of another car in traffic. There were many more equally stupid things that I saw that might not make it past the filters here. All in all, I think it would be more effective for the traffic police to crack down on plain bad driving. The kind of drivers that are weaving through traffic, running stop signs, cutting left turns in front of oncoming traffic, tailgating, and (my pet peeve) driving at night with their bright lights on in traffic.
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