Timeline for When the handbrake is not working, is it safe to fully depend on putting car into park instead?
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| Aug 6, 2016 at 11:35 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @ArtOfCode: The name derives from the name of the Ministry, but (a) acronyms do not work that way [if you were to treat the "of" differently you'd omit it entirely], and (b) even if they did, the fact remains that the name of the test is officially styled "MOT" regardless. As for the "test" suffix, yes it is properly required by English but nonetheless generally omitted. Here's a link to the actual Government MOT page: gov.uk/getting-an-mot/the-mot-test The only place they call it an "MOT test" is in the URI, showing that calling it "an MOT" is perfectly good and proper. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 11:13 | comment | added | RemarkLima | Pendant alert, it'll be all upper case, and whilst MOT test is the actual test, you then have an MOT. gov.uk/getting-an-mot/when-to-get-an-mot also, if you ask a brit about a cars MOT they'll know... Much like asking a Kiwi about a cars warrant (WoF, or warrant of fitness). | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 22:41 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @Lightness: I dispute. It stands for Ministry of Transport, so it would make sense as "MoT test". I don't know about the ministry's official acronym, though the "test" is certainly necessary. | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 22:16 | comment | added | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | In Italy too: every two years (or after the first four, for a new car) a car must pass a test, which it would fail with a non-functional handbrake (BTW, most cars in Italy use manual transmission). | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 11:44 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Nitpicking, but the test's name is correctly rendered "MOT". | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | dan1111 | Not all U.S. states have similar tests, but some do, and this will probably lead to a failure (for the two I checked, Pennsylvania, and NY, the parking brake is required to work). | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 10:32 | history | answered | Graham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |