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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:04:15 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:38:02 -0800, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:39:53 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:03:39 -0800, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:00:43 -0500, wrote:

He will if he wants tags and in florida your current insurance
coverage comes up when a cop runs your tag. If you cancel, it shows up
in real time, pretty much as soon as the agent types it into his
computer. This is the 21st century and computers are connected.
We are even testing a camera the cops will have on their car that
independently scans tags and checks everyone it sees against the
database for wants, warrants, insurance, stolen etc and alerts the cop
right then. A cop could be parked on the side of the road asleep and
he would be woken up if an uninsured car drove by.

Listen up... if you walk into a used car lot and buy a car with cash,
you just drive out. The salesperson isn't going to ask you about
insurance.

The salesman isn't but that green eyeshade guy in the closing office
will if he values his license.
Have you ever bought a car for cash? I do it every time. They can not
issue you that paper tag or transfer your tag without proof of
insurance
I suppose you could buy a car and take it out on a trailer but if you
are driving it you need a tag and you can't get a tag without
insurance

You're right about actual, legal used car lots. I doubt most illegals
do that, however.

They still need to buy real tags.

Maybe someday when they get around to it.

I am really starting to think you don't drive.

I'm really starting to think you'd prefer to be insulting and can just
barely contain yourself.

It is clear you never registered a car.

It's clear that you can't argue with someone who actually has facts to
support herself.

All of a sudden you think technology is going to just kick in and
solve all the problems? Come on.

It is sure chipping away at the problem. I am sure there are uninsured
drivers but they get caught often enough to be a deterrent and the
technology is making that a lot easier. A Mexican in a junker probably
gets his tag run a couple times a day. Racist? Profiling? maybe but
cops go where the likely arrests are.

BS. The cops have better things to do.

If that was true they wouldn't sit in the bushes with RADAR guns.

I didn't realize that RADAR susses out lack of insurance! I think you
should alert CNN.

Uninsured motorists are a political thing.
Everyone from the AAA to the insurance companies want it to stop along
with anyone who was hit by an uninsured motorist or just pays more for
their insurance than the should because a few people don't pay.

Political? I thought it was safety/financial. Is this a Republican
talking point that I missed?

BTW this is why I have been saying for years, insurance companies
should be titling cars and issuing tags. They are the ones with the
skin in the game and the databases the cops use anyway.
The whole thing could be rolled up into one national database and
eliminate 51 state (remember DC) operations that are not that good
about talking to each other

National db? Perhaps administered by insurance companies? Or, by the
gov't??? Sounds like a police state to me...

Insurance companies already maintain a national database. That was my
point.
The insurance company database is a whole lot more accurate than the
police database unless the police link to the insurance companies,
which they do in Florida.

Why do we need the police anyway? Why not just hire the insurance
companies to do it all? Sheesh..

We still need the cops to enforce the law. I am talking about the
insurance companies doing the bookkeeping since they already do most
of it anyway.

Why?