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The UK has an insurance lookup database, although you're only supposed to use it on your own car: http://ownvehicle.askmid.com/

I've been wondering if it would be possible to combine that with ANPR to give a dashboard-level indicator of uninsured vehicles to watch out for.

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That's an excellent idea. Far too often the driver in front appears to be driving strangely so you drop back a bit and hope they or you turn off so you don't have to be hypervigilant about their driving.

If there was an automated way of dobbing a driver in to the police then this would be useful too - quick tweet/email/text with the message: uninsured vehicle AB12 CDE travelling at 35mph location 51°29'51.3"N 0°08'06.4"W

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