I don't really understand what everyones getting so narked about?

The new rule is nothing new. It's simply tracking down people who don't insure their cars but continue to drive them on the road. Which is illegal already.

Ok... so if you don't want to drive your car on the road... you don't insure it. Why would you keep it taxed? You wouldn't, you'd declaire it SORN (like i have with my ). This means you are legal.

The moment you want to drive it on the road you'll need to get temp/full insurance and tax your car. How is this any different to how things are already?

If you drive on the road, you mot, tax and insure.

If you don't drive on the road then you don't need an mot, tax or insurance.

Ok... can someone explain what the issue is?

my issue is Scotty, i wanna insure my car every so often.... to drive it on the road it cant be sorn, that means i have to tax it... i cant tax it for less than 6 months so that means i cant temp insure my car as if its not insured and is taxed im breaking the law

gonna mean i have to insure it for 6 months minimum, if thats the case i may aswell have it taxed and insured all the time makes no difference

But how many people actually do that Dan? I mean 1 in a million people will do that with their car so thats why that 'problem' is being ignored

Huge inconvenience and pointless, just fit more ANPR's and let us law abiding people carry on with our normal lives

Thing is this was introduced to the world in 2004 by a clever guy which I've forgotten his name i will find it he's German but he suggested this idea.

All cars come manufactured with a CPU which can be scanned by police each unique to a car.

The CPU is updated via 3G and if you for example purchase insurance the car is automatically updated via the CPU and the car when scanned shows a valid policy from start to finish, this also applies when cancelling it's automatically removed from the vehicle making scans or stop checks more efficient telling the police there and then if insurance is valid.

Same applies for Tax If these cars do not show up with either upon scan the police can stop the car call the centre of operations with this CPU software and check on a mirrored server which data is sent immediately by insurance or DVLA making it a there and then fine and car being taken off the road.

Instead of this new law in which, involves the injections of cash which is temporary but will make a significant profit from interest for insurance companies before the consumer changes his policy again.

example

bill pays £400 for his 6 months insurance he wants to use his car for 2 weeks.

week 1 the payment has made from interest 0.004% interest
week 2 the payment has made interest .0.005% interest

now times that by 6 million drivers doing the same thing.

it's a scam however we could see a fixed lower price for all policy users as the margin to lending and borrowing will be covered by the interest in which they can make.