🚀 go-pugleaf

Walt Horning wrote:
> 
> My wife picked out "good" used car for my daughter. It had been
> inspected a few months ago at the dealership by the dealer's own
> inspector. Now we are finding all kinds of safety defects. Obviously
> the inspection system is just another product of corrupt state
> government. I am so angry I would like to piss in their lunch.


Oh yeah, the inspection system is a scam, all right. Go to a civilized
state like Michigan, where no inspections are required (not even
emissions); there are just as many junkers on the road here (in VA) as
in MI. 

I used to work at a gas station that did emissions inspections (back
before they were done away with), and many, many polluting vehicles were
passed by with a wink for a $20 bill. I have no direct knowledge of the
same thing happening in VA, but given the prevalence of POS cars on the
road here, I'll wager that it does. Often.

Inspection systems typically are more about revenue generation than
saftey.