I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Some countries safety inspect vehicles annually.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

In Spain you have 4 or 5 years before the first safety inspection. And the then, if it's a van or bigger it's each 6 months and if it's a car, 1 year.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.