You don’t live here, and you have no clue. I live here. Inspections are a joke. I see POS stuff on the road all the time with or without a registration sticker. This state is overrun with illegals and aholes that don’t carry insurance. Inspections don’t do chit to reduce that. You go ahead and love your gubmint that is “protecting” you. Inspection fees are nothing but another worthless tax and a payoff to lobbyist that own garages and other inspection stations.
Amen again...
Last moved from Texas in 2004. Again, I had new or newer vehicles so the details of inspection were no big deal, the cost minimal, just something to be done.