Originally Posted by
fuji86
There's no fixing uninsured motorists, those people get into the system and stay in it. Tickets, license suspensions and so on. Eventually they are labeled habitual, but they'll find a way to get behind the wheel of a car they are desperately trying to hold on to once the financial slide gets them behind. These days it's tougher to get into a car. they cost more, the gasoline, the insurance for younger drivers. Even licensing requirements and costs are rising. FL requires a birth certificate now, not a photocopy but a certified copy from the state you were born. That's $ 20 right there, that's for a renewal too. Used to cost $ 20 or whatever to renew your license.
Which is why I support more effective means of catching them, like the automated recognition systems I mentioned above. I agree with you that right now there isn't any really effective way to stop them from getting behind the wheel despite any number of administrative punishments being applied. No one is bothering to routinely check the status of any of the cars/drivers on the road, but computers could do that. I'm increasingly seeing "farm use" (unregistered) vehicles out there, too, and I'm guessing with the numbers I'm seeing in urban settings most of them aren't using those placards legitimately (there are certain things you're allowed to do on public roads with a "farm use" vehicle in some states, such as driving it to a repair shop, so not all of these people are breaking the law).