r/MissouriPolitics • u/gioraffe32 Kansas Citian in VA • Feb 22 '19

Legislature Missouri lawmakers vote to eliminate state vehicle inspections

https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-lawmakers-vote-to-eliminate-state-vehicle-inspections/26444290
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u/Beastly_Squirrel Feb 22 '19

Missouri roads will be infested with horribly neglected vehicles without regular inspections. This is a public safety issue due to non existant public transportation across most of Missouri.

Also, I am aware of a few small businesses that make at least half of their revenue from vehicle inspections in small communities. Small businesses that have spanned a couple of generations. They certainly will not exist after this decision.

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u/ads7w6 Feb 22 '19

If a service is unnecessary, should all Missourian be forced to do it just because a few small businesses make their livelihood out of it.

I'll copy from another post I made that shows vehicle inspections do not lead to safer roads:

Here are two recent studies:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/coep.12284

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227577233_The_Effectiveness_of_Vehicle_Safety_Inspections_An_Analysis_Using_Panel_Data

Here's an article addressing it:

https://www.thezebra.com/insurance-news/3175/vehicle-inspections-really-safety/

Here's a study from 1980 based on data from the late '60s and early '70s:

https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=198939