• TheUnicornsForever@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    For all those wandering if these are slick (racing) tires, it doesn’t look like it. You can clearly see the grooves worn out (bottom left) and the threads through the rubber on the left, indicating extremely worn out tires. I’m curious though as to how anyone would get their tires in this shape before a safety inspection would have made it mandatory to change them.

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      10 months ago

      Many states (and presumably many countries) done have safety inspections. In the Midwest there are tons of old vehicles that would never pass an inspection out on the road

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        10 months ago

        Is that because regulations are for commies, or there’s some Big Road Traffic Accident lobby profiting off people dying in shitboxes? What possible reason is there to allow such an obvious death trap on the road?

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          There’s a combination of anti-regulation sentiments and poverty. Rural towns in particular have a lot of old ass beaters driving around and people don’t have the income to fix or replace those vehicles. But yeah, that’s also where you get a lot of the “gub’ment can take it from my cold dead hands” types of attitudes, even (especially?) when it’s for the safety and well-being of people. Hell people fought restaurant smoking laws up until the early 2010’s, and some states still have no helmet law for motorcycles.

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        10 months ago

        Yep. I’m in Indiana. We don’t do vehicle inspections here. People drive scary shitboxes.

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              10 months ago

              Oh me too. My wife and I have talked about moving away again for years, but we keep having to push those plans back for one reason or another (work, COVID, etc.)

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                10 months ago

                My wife has an amazing job that is basically her dream job. We also have our two elderly mothers in a nearby part of the state. And then there’s housing prices. Even if we sold our house, we couldn’t afford to buy one somewhere else. We’re not leaving any time soon.