cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24122615
A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge.
The university’s TU/ecomotive group, which focuses on developing concepts for future sustainable vehicles, describes its ARIA concept as “a modular electric city car that you can repair yourself”.
ARIA, which stands for Anyone Repairs It Anywhere, is constructed using standardised components including a battery, body panels and internal electronic elements that can be easily removed and replaced if a fault occurs.
With assistance from an instruction manual and a diagnostics app that provides detailed information about the car’s status, users should be able to carry out their own maintenance using only the tools in the car’s built-in toolbox, the TU/ecomotive team claimed.
Most of the world has annual safety inspections. Not North America.
We have annual inspections in my state and I still got a lug nut chucked into my windshield.
Where in North America are there no inspections? I can’t renew my registration without the car going through inspection and I assumed inspections were required everywhere.
Georgia has no inspections. If you live in the greater metro Atlanta area there is an annual emissions test to make sure you’re not making too much smog, but they don’t check the rest of the vehicle.
As far as I know, only Pennsylvania & New York have annual vehicle inspections. Hang on a sec. Okay, Wikipedia says 14 states have annual inspections. More than I thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States
Most places in North America. Most places here in Canada only have inspections when the vehicle changes owners. In Quebec, the inspection is only done when you buy a car from a dealer or used car garage, does not apply on private sales. Some seriously sketchy cars in Quebec.
Damn Canada you scary.
In BC you only need a regular inspection if your vehicle is for commercial use, or business use over 8000kg.
Other than that, you only need an inspection if you purchased it over 6 months ago in another province… And that’s mainly Alberta’s fault.
Yup, you can thank our Conservative premiers for scrapping any kind of regular mechanical or emissions inspections.
The voters thank them by giving them full power majorities.
Unfortunately, cheap bribes work.
Ontario. And no visible licence validation either. Doug Ford put all the drunks and uninsured losers back on roads.
California has inspections never.
I’ve never had to get a vehicle inspected in Wisconsin as far as I can recall. There are some areas that do emissions testing but that’s about it.
I never had to get an inspection in ohio
Also you can basically do whatever you want in New Hampshire, they’re nuts over there
Depends where you’re talking about. Unfortunately most of the US states haven’t figured out how to make going to the DMV (department of motor vehicles) not suck tremendously and how to keep it from taking up most of a day, so many places only do those checks whenever you have to renew the license plate tag/registration, and it’s done at the DMV itself. Usually once every couple of years.
Some states allow those inspections to be done by other approved locations. Different states have different timings on how often it’s required, and they all have differences as to what is actually tested and what is passing and failing.
My state DMV is great at customer service but terrible at roads.