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Originally Posted by Russ
I'm very sceptical about this idea. If it was policed by government departments or insurance companies then that's one thing but this is all down to the mercy of the person in the petrol station who I imagine will have a "computer says no" type of attitude in the event of an error. If you're very low on petrol yet insured correctly it won't matter if their systems come up with the wrong information - you're going nowhere.
I think the government should be more concerned with bringing down the extortionate amounts companies charge for insurance. That way people will be far less likely to want to avoid paying.
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I'm with Russ on this one. I bought a car a month ago, on a Saturday, part exchanging my old car.
Whilst the paperwork was being put through, I phoned my broker and got the policy amended with the new details. So as far as I was concerned the vehicle and myself were insured. Needless to say, I also had to put some fuel in the car to get us home.
It was not until Wednesday the following week that the vehicle showed up as being insured on Askmid.
In principal, it's a good idea, in practice however not so good for my example. Unless the insurance industry can pull some fingers out to speed up the updating of the database that is.