Mercedes-Benz's largest individual shareholder is BAIC, a Chinese state-owned automaker. Sources told CNBC that exemptions in the legislation would not apply.
Do you not have mandatory checks for cars in the US? Here you have to go to a certified mechanic’s shop within 4 years after the car is first registered and every 2 years after that. They check brakes, steering, emissions and lights and if you fail any of those checks you are not allowed to drive that car until you get it fixed.
My state recently did away with annual inspections. It used to be required before you could renew your annual license plate registration. They’d do exactly what you said: check brakes, lights, emissions, steering, dashboard lights, etc and you had to pass all of them. Now none of that is required, because “small government” or some other BS.
So yeah, now we have a ton of screaming metal death traps on the road, because of course we do. Normally those cars would get failed at inspection if they were missing all of their brake lights. Now it will only be discovered when they get rear-ended. And wrecked cars that wouldn’t otherwise be legal are suddenly driving all over the place, because they can still technically get from A to B… They just don’t do it safely.
Depends heavily on the state, but even inspections in the strictest states do not compare to the ones in Europe. Some states have no inspections whatsoever.
When I was a kid my state had yearly inspections, but that was stopped like 25 years ago. Occasionally you still see one of the green stickers on the windshield of an old car.
Do you not have mandatory checks for cars in the US? Here you have to go to a certified mechanic’s shop within 4 years after the car is first registered and every 2 years after that. They check brakes, steering, emissions and lights and if you fail any of those checks you are not allowed to drive that car until you get it fixed.
My state recently did away with annual inspections. It used to be required before you could renew your annual license plate registration. They’d do exactly what you said: check brakes, lights, emissions, steering, dashboard lights, etc and you had to pass all of them. Now none of that is required, because “small government” or some other BS.
So yeah, now we have a ton of screaming metal death traps on the road, because of course we do. Normally those cars would get failed at inspection if they were missing all of their brake lights. Now it will only be discovered when they get rear-ended. And wrecked cars that wouldn’t otherwise be legal are suddenly driving all over the place, because they can still technically get from A to B… They just don’t do it safely.
Depends heavily on the state, but even inspections in the strictest states do not compare to the ones in Europe. Some states have no inspections whatsoever.
Depends on the state, and how eagerly and effectively they enforce it.
When I was a kid my state had yearly inspections, but that was stopped like 25 years ago. Occasionally you still see one of the green stickers on the windshield of an old car.
All I can attest to is in Virginia, yes, in Michigan, no.