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- <text id=91TT2669>
- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: American Notes:Smog
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- SMOG
- Pollution Tests On the Run
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The war against smog may soon get a new high-tech weapon. A
- device being tested in Provo, Utah, uses an infrared beam,
- computer software and a video camera to add up the carbon
- monoxide and hydrocarbons billowing from the tail pipes of
- passing cars--and to automatically record their license
- numbers.
- </p>
- <p> If the new device proves accurate, it could go into
- widespread use next year, when the Clean Air Act of 1990 will
- require 18 states and 33 cities that have excessive carbon
- monoxide or ozone levels to begin extensive pollution tests,
- including on-road exams.
- </p>
- <p> Some prosecutors think the device could also be used to
- issue pollution tickets to motorists who have deliberately
- tampered with their cars to get around the new rules. But for
- the moment at least, about 100 drivers in Provo face a far more
- desirable consequence if the roadside detector flunks their cars
- twice: private sources will pay for the necessary repairs.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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