1. Create a national car database and make it mandatory for every manufacturer/dealer to report a car sale. VIN should be assigned to every car.
Adv: The govt would have a database of every car being driven in the country. This info is already available with Rto but not in central location.
In fact we should have a common car registration regime in the whole country - you can buy a car anywhere and move anywhere, without needing to re-register it. You would just need to update the address. Similarly for your Driving license - you can get an all india DL from anywhere and live anywere. You just need to keep your address updated in central database.
2. Every service center should report every service/repair performed and provide car mileage, cost of service, date car was brought in and date car was released back, DL of the person who brought the car in.
Adv: Govt would know the service history of every car. It would be difficult for someone to manipulate Odometers and hide problems during resale.
Since Service records would be available, it can also be easier to track hit and run cases. e.g. A tata indica driver runs over a kid crossing the road and flees. he then goes to a garage to get his car fixed up. Since the garage would report the repair to the db, cops can easily search the db and find all indicas who got repaired in that period.
3. Consumers should be able to pull up a car history from this database.
Adv: at the time of resale, a consumer can check this database and see all the previous records. Currently this info is either not available or can easily be forged.
4. cops should report every accident to this db, |