Did you know that if you don't have your ITV sticker on your windscreen you could face a 100-euro fine? Well, that could soon be changing as these stickers will disappear.
What the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) intends to do is to replace this system; thus save on printing costs, with a phone app which should begin to replace the old system by the end of this year.
It also has the objective of making officers’ work, manning road checks, easier, although reading a sticker or noting its absence does not exactly require Mensa membership.
Be that as it may, it appears that both drivers and officers will have this phone app. The system will have to be pretty tight to avoid hacking, forging and data theft, so it all seems to have lots of loose ends.
What if a driver doesn’t use a mobile phone, for example? The upside is that car owners can easily consult their ITV records.
Whatever the case, the DGT has made it abundantly clear that until the system is fully implanted and operative, you will still need a windscreen sticker.
(News/Noticias: Spain)
This has been in place for years in the UK and has Paul mentioned it is a one stop shop for insurance, tax and ITV. Just because you do not have a smarty mobile does not stop you from the good old paperwork system for your credentials and lets face it that will always be required. Big brother might be looking at you but now at a glance he/she (see what I did there) can tell whos playing the game. The idea of this and many others is not always a bad one my friends.
Julie: Agreed
“What if a driver doesn’t have a mobile phone” Or want one, exactly.
The digital world is now upon us and I have been warning people for
years to resist it. A cashless society is not a conspiracy theory. If you
don’t use cash, you will lose it to the detriment of small businesses.
In the digital world, people cannot be private. So many people say
“Well I haven’t done anything wrong, I don’t mind the Government
knowing everthing about me!” You are fools.
Imagine if an authoritarian Government like Franco came to power again,
they would know everything about you.
There is already a DGT app (MiDGT) that has your driving license and details on what vehicles are registered to you. It is attached to your digital certificate for security.
It is acceptable to show this to police as a driving licence. The police know everything just by scanning your number-plate so to have ITV and insurance details added to the app should not be difficult.