Online polls show overwhelming support for new policies issued on Friday that dramatically reduce the frequency of required vehicle safety checks while also preventing improper dealings or collusion.

Private vehicles and small passenger cars that were purchased less than six years earlier will be exempted from compulsory checks from September 1, 2014, according to the notice jointly issued by the Ministry of Public Security and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The current rules impose compulsory biennial checks on such vehicles.

It also said that any departments or people attached to the public security and quality supervision departments will be forbidden from getting  involved in the vehicle inspection business to prevent corruption.

A delegate to the National People's Congress (NPC), Huang Xihua, applauded the change, saying it's a step forward towards completely abolishing compulsory inspections on small vehicles.

Huang earlier this year proposed at the NPC meetings the total abolishment of these checks "because despite having these compulsory checks on vehicles implemented for 10 years, traffic accidents didn't see any decline in number and the pollution caused by vehicle exhaust is getting serious."

An online survey carried out on Sina Weibo showed that about 90 percent of over 900 voters supported the new changes as of press time.

"The frequency of checks is too high at present. And more importantly, the staff at the inspection points don't do much to really help figure out any problems. It's simply paying the money to update the inspection logo," said Li Jun, a Shanghai car owner, adding that it's also a waste of government resources. "The auto 4S shops can do the job as well and the lines would probably be much shorter."

The unfairness and opacity of the vehicle inspection sector has also been the subject of frequent complaints over issues relating to collusion. A Guangdong car owner surnamed Deng said he once sent his car for two inspections within a day. He failed in the morning when he drove the car in to go through the procedure, but when he found an agency to help in the afternoon, things went smoothly. The service cost Deng 400 yuan ($64.17). "It's a sophisticated business," he said.

The Southern Metropolis Daily reported that in Foshan, Guangdong Province, computers in some vehicle inspection spots were equipped with software that can shield the car from the country's vehicle inspection monitoring system and allow people to manually determine if a car fails or passes a check, which opens the door to corruption.