Rapid Pass

We got an unusual letter in the mail - one we had never seen before. It was from Rapidpass Virginia. It said that our car has been identified as clean - via Virginia’s on road, drive through emissions inspection option. It can be used to fulfill your emissions test requirement. You pay the $28 inspection fee. Once the fee is paid the report is automatically transmitted to the Virginia department of motor vehicles, and then you can proceed with your registration renewal. So we went to the rapidpass website and entered the vehicle ID number and clean screen ID number. Then you need to confirm the vehicle information. Then you pay the fee and get a copy of the emissions test. So I spent the next couple of days trying to think about how to renew the vehicle registration. Finally I found it on the DMV website. It obviously knew we had paid the emissions test and the report was transmitted. So we just paid another ninety dollars for the registration renewal. I have no idea where our vehicle was tested - we must have been on the road whenever this is done. Last year we had it done at the routine auto check at the Subaru dealer. I’m not sure when the vehicle inspection is due. It’s getting to be too confusing - or we are just getting too old to remember all of this stuff. All I know is that our vehicle’s registration has been renewed for two years. I think we are two months ahead of time, but who cares?