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Every police chase is a danger to innocent people’s lives. Some chases are necessary, but a broken taillight is not worth that risk.

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    3611 months ago

    In my country the rules are simple. It’s your car, so you’re responsible.

    The owner should’ve fixed the broken taillight, not the current driver.

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      311 months ago

      What country? Do you have annual inspections? That’s easily the right answer to a busted taillight question :)

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        11 months ago

        In the UK, you would receive a letter with the details of the infraction. You can nominate someone else who was driving at the time but it defaults to the car’s registered owner.

        And we have annual inspections (the MOT) or your insurance is invalid. You have to be taxed and insured or your car gets impounded.

        Does the US not have annual inspections?

        Quick edit: This is for things like speeding and other offences caught on camera. I doubt this would apply to a broken light as in the OP.

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          1011 months ago

          Same in Belgium and I assume most civilized countries. Either your car is stolen or it is not. If it is, you legally have to disclose that. If it is not, then “maybe I wasn’t the one driving but I’m not going to tell you ;) ;) ;)” is a bullshit excuse, and everyone knows it. You know it, the person you replied to knows it, the judge knows it.

          I think there’s a whole-ass essay to be written on the Americans’ relationship to law that leads them to using the stupidest legal arguments like some kind of arcane ward… and actually succeeding.

          Hot take: we make fun of sovereign citizens but “speed cameras are unenforceable if you don’t have a 4K picture of me at the wheel of what is unambiguously my car” is basically the same thought process.

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          311 months ago

          In the US inspections are controlled by each state. Some have yearly, some have basically none, and everything in between like only during change of ownership.