On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:01:14 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 10/3/15 12:33 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:55:53 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 10/3/15 11:52 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:02:01 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:


Right, because everyone knows there is no reason for the licensing of
auto drivers or the registration and titling of motor vehicles. Hell,
why insist that anyone in a profession be licensed, or that there be
standards for anything.

The "licensing" of drivers is a joke. What does proving that you could
parallel park a car when you were 16 have to do with your ability at
80?
Titling of cars gets pretty silly when the car gets old. Boats are
even sillier. I can understand that if you have $200,000 boat, it
might make sense to track ownership somehow.
When it is a 12' jon boat, maybe worth $200 it is just stupid.
The same thing is true of a 10 year old car.

I have said this before and I will repeat it. The whole process should
be handled by the insurance companies who have all of the skin in the
game and the computer systems to handle the processes nation wide.

If insurance companies issued tags and owned them, uninsured motorists
would quickly become a thing of the past. Bad drivers would be
identified and revoked quicker too. You wouldn't have people walking
around with licenses from 2 or 3 states.
The police would still have the same computer access they have now and
the databases would have a better chance of being right.


Please, enough silly libertarianism for one day, eh?


Why don't you debate the points?

Why shouldn't "DMV" functions be managed by insurance companies? They
are the ones with the skin in the game. They pay out the claims for
bad drivers and the claims for stolen cars. What else is there?

They have already demonstrated that they can track these things better
than 51 state governments (including DC)


I'm sure the insurance companies would handle that about as well as they
have handled health care insurance, as in screw over everyone with
exorbitant fees and denial of services.

That is a different issue totally.

Have you had huge problems with the process at your auto insurer?
Bear in mind they maintain most of this data anyway.
Insurance companies probably have better tracking of driver records
than 51 DMVs, certainly better than the worst.

I know for a fact, DC and Maryland had a ****ing match over turf for
decades (maybe still) and when I was "revoked" in DC, Maryland never
even heard about it. Because Maryland DMV didn't have it Geico never
knew either.
If the DC cops had reported directly to the insurance company I would
have been busted.

BTW it was 88 in a 45 on Kennilworth ave for the curious. I was young
;-)