Proof Of Insurance On Your Smart Phone?

Once you sign up with an auto insurance company in San Francisco, you will receive proof of insurance usually a piece of perforated paper, which can be carried in your glove box along with your vehicle registration. You may also receive small laminated cards to serve as proof for you to carry around in your wallet. In the State of California, however, while it is legal for an officer to ask you for proof of insurance, there is no specification as to what form that proof must take. Therefore, many police workers have been accepting applications on smart phones as proof, such as the Android or iPhone, which show proof of auto insurance.

Whether your auto insurance company in San Francisco has made an app available is irrelevant; it is possible to download a photo of proof that you indeed have coverage from a San Francisco auto insurance company, and police may accept it.

Some drivers feel that this is far more convenient and safer than carrying proof in their car. Should the car be stolen or broken into, its possible for thieves to gain personal information, such as ones home address from a proof of insurance sheet. Keeping that information on an iPad or smart phone is one way to prevent an invasion of privacy in that nature (although it is still required by law to keep an original of your car registration in your vehicle).

Proponents of a new law in California suggest making it official and allowing drivers to keep the proof on their mobile devices. This move would ultimately reduce the forgetfulness factor of some uninsured drivers who claim to have lost their proof or have left it elsewhere when pulled over by law officials. In the future, the possibility of direct verification from your auto insurance company in San Francisco over a digital device may be the way for everyone to go.

Its a movement towards a more innovative, exciting, less costly, paperless society, said Eugene Reid, a futurist and entrepreneur in the Bay area. Imagine having everything you need available right there on your smart phone, and merely having an officer click to connect, and then youre set. Of course, you wouldn't think it was a very good idea, I guess, if youre uninsured or a bad guy out on the lam. But for all the rest of us, I think it is a really wonderful step in the right direction.

The bill has not yet been scheduled for a vote.

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