MSE News: Online driving records could cut car insurance bills

~Chameleon~

Steve059 wrote: »

And again, what about the 6% of the population who don't have internet access to check the accuracy of these?

As a "straw poll of one", my car's online record is incorrect.

So is mine on the insurance databases. It's listed as a quattro but isn't one.

cepheus

Bantex wrote: »

They are most likely care home residents and unlikely to be driving.

In Great Britain, 21 million households (83%) had Internet access in 2013. Note, this is someone in the same house not 83% of people. So 17% of households don't have access.

Care homes constitute only about half a percent of the population 386,000 people. I know several people who have no idea how to use the internet and are not in care homes, one in her mid fifties, lives alone and drives.

vulcan1964

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Any reason you've not applied for a plastic licence to date? You'd have no points on your licence if you had.

I still have my green paper driving license from 32 years ago with my old address on it ( left 25 years ago ).

But as I have not had a offence, parking ticket or accident in those years do I need to change it ?

~Chameleon~

vulcan1964 wrote: »

I still have my green paper driving license from 32 years ago with my old address on it ( left 25 years ago ).

But as I have not had a offence, parking ticket or accident in those years do I need to change it ?

Yes, it's an offence not to have your current address on your DL with a fine of £1000.

Have you never needed to use it as a form of ID?

Torry_Quine

vulcan1964 wrote: »

I still have my green paper driving license from 32 years ago with my old address on it ( left 25 years ago ).

But as I have not had a offence, parking ticket or accident in those years do I need to change it ?

It's an offence not to have your correct address.

usefulmale

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Yes, it's an offence not to have your current address on your DL with a fine of £1000.

Have you never needed to use it as a form of ID?

Are you sure? As long as you are contactable at the address given on your licence, you are OK.

~Chameleon~

usefulmale wrote: »

Are you sure? As long as you are contactable at the address given on your licence, you are OK.

Really? And do you think he's still contactable at an address he left 25 years ago? Unless it happens to be his parents' address and they still live there.

Rodney_Trotter

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Really? And do you think he's still contactable at an address he left 25 years ago? Unless it happens to be his parents' address and they still live there.

Could be, you don't know it isn't.

He may have sold it to a friend who hands him any post.

trollopscarletwoman

vulcan1964 wrote: »

I still have my green paper driving license from 32 years ago with my old address on it ( left 25 years ago ).

But as I have not had a offence, parking ticket or accident in those years do I need to change it ?

I've just changed mine from the pink one to the counterpart one and card after 8 years of change of address only for insurance purposes. Wouldn't have bothered otherwise.

As to the fine thing does anyone know of somebody getting fined because of incorrect address-because I don't.

patman99

I liked the headline that 'Insurance could become cheaper'.
Yeah, right. Not a chance pal.