Drive by emissions testing
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Drive by emissions testing
Hoo boy could this suck if you have a test pipe! And this is my county.
Anybody have any experience with this?
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=11791517
Anybody have any experience with this?
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=11791517
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This one sounds a whole lot less... evil: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/auto...49/detail.html
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Get those on select freeway on and off-ramps around here in the summer time. Just drive around them. One exit sooner or later and they won't be there...
Edit: Just saw the rules and way that the testing actually registers your car for you. I'm assuming you can just opt out of that and go wherever you already go to "pass emissions"?
Edit: Just saw the rules and way that the testing actually registers your car for you. I'm assuming you can just opt out of that and go wherever you already go to "pass emissions"?
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I live in Colorado.. this things are around Denver all the time.. My county has no emissions testing (hoorah), so I can drive past them all day long. Even then, if you drive close enough to another car, it'll pass you aswell.. it's not the greatest system, but it does save time for others who need emissions testing and can't get to the centers.
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Ya that thankfully seems like a 'convenience' not a threat. I read (somewhere, forgot) that Texas is removing a number of speed cameras? I hope so, I hate the idea of Big Bro spreading all over...
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Equity in Testing
For me emissions testing is designed to verify that combustion products eminating from a vehicle are at specified levels of acceptance. For those of U that run test pipes, I suspect U have already left this post. That said, what concerns me is these criteria are not applied equally. Specifically, most if not all of the regulations are directed to automobiles but yet there are others that get a free pass. For example, commercial haulers such as garbage trucks, dump trucks and pickup trucks of specific size classes and the like do not have to pass emissions testing that we do....ever seen the belowing exhaust trails from a 12 yard dump truck? School buses have no emissions requirements whatsoever. So my point is, if we, automobile drivers, have to conform, then these other vehicles have to as well. In short, what is good for one should be good for all.
Later, Ken
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"This is a "clean screening" program, not a "dirty screening" program so motorists who fail the drive-by test will not be penalized. Instead, they will just have to go and get a standard emissions test at a local emissions test facility at their regularly scheduled time."
From the second link, doesn't sound too bad at all...
Can actually be used to your advantage..
From the second link, doesn't sound too bad at all...
Can actually be used to your advantage..