I go back and forth on the inspections deal. Here in the larger counties they have implemented dyno tests where they run the cars at road speeds and do emissions testing "at speed", which more than triples the inspection costs ($50) and initially cut many people out of the inspection business as it required them to invest $50k for the dynos to even be able to perform inspections, then of course their inspectors had to be re-educated and re-certified

In smaller counties like mine inspections do not include the dyno tests and are just $15, which I at least view as more reasonable.

Is it all a matter of governmental control and revenue increasing policy? Yeah kinda, but more for the inspectors than the state as all inspection stations are privately owned, not state owned.

Do these inspections also keep some less than safe cars off the road, yes! Even in my county a cars brakes, tires, all lights and wiper blades have to measure up, which seems relevant to the overall populaces safety as it enforces compliance with what is essentially important for a car to navigate the roads.

However, this really all takes away the individual responsibility for each driver to maintain their vehicles properly, creates a bureaucracy within the state (which DOES add costs to EVERY state taxpayer) to oversee and enforce what I see should be the responsibility of the owner. It would actually be more logical to me that individual vehicle operators should be individually liable if their cars are the cause of or involved in wrecks when the equipment is shown to be improperly maintained and to have caused the accidents of contributed to the severity of them in the 1st place.

As the law now stands, so long as a car involved in an accident has a valid inspection, the vehicular condition is not admissable as part of the cause of an accident if it winds up in court. This means even if a driver swaps tires so he can get an inspection (or the tires at the time of inspection were marginal and over the course of the year would no longer pass inspection), his brakes are not maintained and actually were less than good, even these can not be part of the legal process in accidents so long as a valid sticker is in place, which seems overall unreasonable