I have seen the digital copies but.........if your phone decided not to work at that moment ,it could become a bad day......handing an officer your smart phone is the sam as saying ....yes officer I surrender my right to a warrant for you to gleen this phone for all the info it will give you.

hard copy only from me......if you can pull it up on your computer I would print it out........until they have digital Registrations and drivers licences.....its the only way to go

     Ok here is the deal it was on my IPOD. I have it plugged into my trucks radio so it stays charged at all times. The insurance companies app lets my cards stay in the IPODs' memory with out haveing internet. The eleictronic cards have the same information on them as the paper. In the past I have downloaded the proof onto  my computer. In 2011 my wife was in an accident and all I had to do was turn the computer on and show the officer the downloaded proof and he was happy with it. This was a small town as well.

    I was just wondering if others have run into this issue in other areas.

Jim01 wrote:

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We went full-timing to get away from problems. To me, the best way would be to simply print out a copy to hand to an officer if he didn't want to accept the electronic version.

Problem solved. No more hassle. 

Jim

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 My thought exactly.

If you're at the side of the road, do you have electricity for the printer?  Do you think a police officer is going to let you go into your fifth wheel to access a printer?  I can attest that they likely will not because you could be going for a weapon.

Working for a law enforcement agency and knowing the normal procedures that police officers do during traffic stops, I know that a police officer is not going to trouble with herding all of the occupants into the fifth wheel so that he still can see all of those occupants while one prints out a document.

Terry

We have always kept hard copy proof of insurance with our vehicle registration. It's just not a big deal.

Hard copy doesn't take up much room just in case LEO won't accept digital copy but if you are bound and determined to make a point and only have it digitally I guess you can go to court and explain it to the Judge.

You could go to a local library and pay a nominal fee to print it out perhaps?

No, we have never presented anyone asking for a copy of our insurance card with an electronic device. We have to have hard copies of the insurance cards in order to get tags for our cars in KS. I know when even showing driver's license, I had mine in a wallet behind a see-through window and am always asked to "take it out". The library is a good idea since most charge maybe 20 cents to print a sheet.

I think maybe we need to understand the OP is a younger couple and are more attuned to everything being electronic.I'm probably too old to see it but some day everything more than likely will be that way.

wildbill2673 wrote:

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     About two weeks ago I went through a sobriety check point here in Elephant Butte, New Mexico. When asked to provide proof of insurance I handed them my Ipod with the insurance information on it. I was told that electronic proof of insurance was not an acceptable form of proof of insurance by the New Mexico Highway Patrol then I was informed that since I was not a resident of the state and the truck was titled in another state they could not inforce proof of insurance hmmmm way to be a real jerk about it.  By the way I had gone through it about an hour earlier with no problems useing the same proof  of insurance.

 

   So has any one else experienced a state, county, or city that has the same policy?

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 To answer your question, NO I have not experienced a state that would not accept electronic proof of insurance (mine is on paper anyway).  I find it odd that even though they would not accept your electronic documentation it became a moot point anyway since you were from out of state and they couldn't enforce POI. Why bother asking for it in the first place?

-- Edited by RVRon on Tuesday 2nd of April 2013 05:01:19 AM