New Jersey DMV Chooses Hunter for Automated Safety Inspection

In the mid 1990's, the State of New Jersey began a program to rebuild its aging centralized Department of Motor Vehicles safety and emissions testing program. Hunter safety inspection lane technology, with its already strong record of performance at state, federal and private testing facilities worldwide, was an ideal choice to equip the New Jersey facilities. Hunter equipment designs were easily integrated into the state's emissions test lane facilities. Hunter's PC-based systems and Windows®-based software were easily linked to the state's computer network. Today, with the system fully operational, Hunter helps keep New Jersey one of the safest states in the U.S. for driving, with automated systems providing drive-through safety inspections for thousands of vehicles there each day.

Testing Two Million Cars a Year Demands High Throughput


			While precision and accuracy are paramount, high throughput is critical to the success of New Jersey's Department of Motor Vehicles safety inspection program. Each of the states 36 centralized facilities is responsible for providing comprehensive steering, brake, suspension and alignment inspections to hundreds of cars and trucks each day. With six million vehicles licensed to operate on its roadways, New Jersey's biennial inspection volume amounts to about three million vehicles annually. State operated centralized facilities handle around 70-percent of the total yearly inspections, or about 2.1 million vehicles per year. The remaining 30-percent of vehicle inspections in New Jersey are carried out by privately owned, decentralized inspection stations. Private operators follow the same requirements for inspection and have the option of purchasing automated systems or conducting more time consuming and labor-intensive manual inspections that follow the state's DMV guidelines.
	New Jersey's automated, drive-through safety inspection facilities test thousands of vehicles a day statewide.

	The DSP402, first stop for vehicles entering New Jersey inspection lanes, measures steering lash and free-play to detect worn parts or failures in the vehicle's steering system. This test uses digital imaging technology developed by Hunter for wheel alignment systems.

	Each New Jersey DMV inspection facility is equipped with a Hunter B400T Brake Tester for passenger cars, up to class 8.