Do you own a car and have it registered in the District of Columbia? If so, you’ve already been through the nightmare of attempting to get your vehicle inspected at the District’s only inspection facility at 1001 Half Street SW. Many of you have complained that there has to be a more efficient way to conduct inspections – well, now there is. WTOP reports that the D.C. DMV is now accepting reservations for appointments at the inspection station between 6:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. One word of advice though, for those of you with ESP: appointments scheduled during a major heat wave could get bumped.

Of course, this might not be as much of a respite for drivers as if they were able to get an inspection at any old gas station, like many other areas of the country. Mayor Fenty’s office and the DMV talked up deregulating the inspection process back in January, but since then no one’s mentioned it. We’ve put in a call to the DMV regarding the status of that plan and are still waiting to hear back, so we’ll let you know when we do. In the meantime, you can click here to make an inspection appointment at the Half Street station. Now if only we could schedule appointments for nearly every other DMV task like they do it in California.