Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to The New Coffee Room. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Attention Drivers: Your Emissions Test Just Got Easier
Topic Started: Jan 13 2016, 07:02 AM (81 Views)
Copper
Member Avatar
Shortstop

No more going to an emissions testing location - just drive by the Rapid Pass, and it flashes your status at you.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news2/attention-drivers-your-emissions-test-just-got-easier/#prettyPhoto

Quote:
 

Attention Drivers: Your Emissions Test Just Got Easier

An emissions test in just a few seconds?

No appointments, dropping off your car, waiting in line or juggling of schedules every other year?

It’s now a reality and all you have to do is drive routinely in Northern Virginia and pass through an on-road RAPIDPASS testing location (though not all vehicles may qualify).

RAPIDPASS systems are exhaust emissions analyzers similar to those used in traditional emissions inspection stations, but adapted for drive-through testing. Two green boxes placed across a lane of traffic measure your vehicle’s speed, acceleration and associated exhaust emissions in order to determine its compliance with emissions standards. A camera captures an image of the vehicle’s license plate so you can be notified your vehicle has qualified for the program.

At least 120 days prior to your car registration deadline, find a RAPIDPASS location, which vary every week all around Northern Virginia on major roadways (the schedule will change as RAPIDPASS systems do not operate during rain, snow, high winds or other adverse weather conditions).

For example, on Jan. 13, there are testing locations in Herndon, Fair Lakes, Fairfax and Falls Church (in addition to Stafford and Loudoun counties). When you pass through a testing location, you may receive a letter in the mail saying your vehicle has qualified. You then have the option to complete your emissions test online (or you can choose to take your vehicle into a traditional testing location).

So if you receive a letter in the mail that looks like this, don’t throw it away!


The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
That is truly awesome.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Axtremus
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
Aha, just drive routinely, you say. Let's see how VW cheats this one!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
DealsFor.me - The best sales, coupons, and discounts for you
« Previous Topic · The New Coffee Room · Next Topic »
Add Reply