rev up your engines, wouldn't it be nice if you live somewhere where you didn't
have to have a yearly state inspection, like in Tennessee, you can have an old
classic like this old El Camino and you don't have to worry that some stupid
light is on and you have to spend a ton of money, they're still perfectly safe
just check out the statistics from states that don't have inspections
versus states that do, here's some statistics in three states that I been in, I live in
Texas, I've been in Florida, and I've been in Tennessee, and here's how the figures
compare, now in the state of Texas, there's about fifteen million eight
hundred and seventy nine thousand registered drivers, while in the state of
Tennessee, there's five million one hundred ninety
seven thousand drivers, so there's three point zero five times, more drivers in
Texas than there are in Tennessee, now in the year 2016
Tennessee had 966 fatal auto collisions, but for the same year 2016, Texas had
three thousand four hundred and seven fatal car crashes, but since there's
three point zero five as many drivers in Texas as there is in Tennessee, if you
multiply the nine hundred and sixty-six fatal collisions in Tennessee by three
point zero five, you would get two thousand nine hundred and forty six, but still
that's less than Texas which had three thousand four hundred and seven, so it's
clear that these safety inspections are not causing less collisions, they're just
a tax that people are paying to have their car inspected every year that the
state governments get to collect, and the same figure shows true for Florida,
Florida has one point zero eight times less population in Texas, but they had
two thousand nine hundred and thirty three fatal collisions in 2016, so even
when you multiply that by one point zero eight, that would be 3,167, but Texas has
three thousand four hundred and seven, so here we go again
Florida has no inspection, they have less fatal crashes
than Texas that has the inspections per driver, and really I didn't expect that one, because
I know so many old people retire in Florida, you'd think the old people would be
crashing into things all the time, but it doesn't, I suppose if there was
less older people it would even be lower, but it still shows that these state
inspections are not safety inspections, they don't save anything, basically it's
a money issue, it's a moneymaker for the states, it's just another tax in the long
line of taxes that we're all paying these days, and especially with more
modern cars, let's face it, you got something like this Toyota van it's not
going to have problems sometimes for decades, so why does it have to be
inspected when it's one, two, three, four years old it's basically a bunch of
nonsense just to make tax dollars, take the state of Florida for example, they
used to have state inspections, but the old people were getting ripped off so bad
they forced the state to do the state inspections themselves, which they did
for a very short period of time, then they got rid of it entirely because the
state was losing money when they had to do it themselves, so now Florida has no
inspection at all and like I say, the crashes are actually lower than a state like
Texas that has an inspection, and look here come the police they must have
heard me talking about this, because if you really use your noggin, anybody that
does a little bit of research will soon find out that most crashes are caused by
human error, not by the mechanical errors in the car, and that's been the case even
since the 1950s when my father was running a gas station, most crashes are
caused by people doing stupid things, not the car itself actually braking, perhaps
the state should change their safety inspections to giving tests to people
and if they're too stupid and don't know how to drive right, taking their license
away not blaming the cars and taxing that when in reality it's the people
driving that caused all the accidents, or making more laws banning cell
phone use or actually enforcing the ones that are already in place, I bet these
cell phones caused more accidents than anything and way more than mechanical
faults of the cars that are being driven, so would it be a better
world if we all got rid of these state inspections, but alas I'm not holding my
breath, taxation is a big deal these days, so
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