I believe in annual vehicle safety inspections simply because without them I can 100% guarantee that a very significant portion of the vehicles on the road will have what amount to ineffective, if not inoperative, brakes and signals, to say nothing of cracked frames, bald tires or other pretty serious issues. Now, I'm as conservative as they come and don't like to see people have to jump through hoops or spend a lot of money on inconsequential stuff. But I've also see people injured and killed because of absolute neglect when it comes to things like brakes or turn signals. I base my 100% claim on a career as a police officer, as a DOT officer, a mechanic and from observing my family, friends and neighbors. Some people will always keep their cars up to snuff, maybe 20-25% of people are like that. Another portion will generally do what they have to whe it becomes obvious the car has a brake issue or something like that, but it'll get pushed back time and again because of money or time constraints or school plays or other activity. Then there's that bottom half that I estimate make up anywhere between 15-30% of drivers that either just can't grasp that things like cracked frames or locked up calipers occur, or they simply don't care as long as they can get from point a to point b in one piece. Sadly, I have to put a portion of our "professional truck drivers" in this category. Not a lot of them, but enough to where it's not really unusual to find a truck with 3 out of 4 rear brakes doing absolutely nothing and a driver whose defense is, "But it's got automatic slack adjusters!"
So, as much as it pains me, I think that the annual safety inspections are needed to address that lower section of the public I mentioned. We all saw what happened in London last week when a guy barrelled into a crowd with is car on purpose. The same idea applies when a guy barrels into a crowd because he has no brakes.
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