How much taxpayers money goes into maintaining this database? Not sayin blockchain is a better solution but it can replace 99% of UK DVLA staff with an algorithm.
Instead of this I could have pay to a smart contract and get my car ownership record in exchange. No clerks or lawyers involved. I cannot imagine how you implement this scenario as an API on top of a centralized database.
When you buy a car it's just registered online, takes 5 minutes to do. No actual in-person anything involved. You get a PDF confirming your registration, the dealership prints the plate for you right there and then, nearly every garage has a machine for priniting them. You stick it on your car, drive off, done. The registration document arrives in post 1-2 weeks later, but you don't really need it for much as it's not proof of ownership anyway, it's just for your records.
Literally nothing about buying a car involves actual people reviewing anything. It's all automated, it's all online.
So I'd still like you to explain how exactly are you going to get rid of 99% of DVLA's staff and what algorithm exactly allows for that when using NFTs/blockchain.
>>First of all I need a contract with a dealership, so there is a lawyer involved
Why? I bought several new cars in the past, you read the documents, sign them, the car is yours. Why involve a lawyer? What for?
> Literally nothing about buying a car involves actual people reviewing anything. It's all automated, it's all online.
Who gives dealer access and rights to update government database? I would not be surprised if the dealer does not have access but update their own system and then submit documents to an agency which checks them and modifies the database. DVLA API is documented online and unless they have another undocumented endpoints I don’t see any way to register a vehicle with it.
Car registration process is documented here - https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/new-registrations
This source suggests registration forms have to be sent by mail! https://dvlacheck.uk/online-forms/
> Although you can download some forms online, you will still need to return them via post. This is because the forms may ask for sensitive information or require that a passport photo be affixed to the application.
Summing up - it seems what you experienced at the dealer is a sugarcoating for the same old paper based registration process that requires countless clerks.
B) So how many people would it take in your blockchain scenario -- why wouldn't there have to be just as many to enter the change of ownership with the "special road police department" etc?
C) How would you know that your "smart contract" couldn't do the exact same bullshit, transfer it to the dealer or whoever he has fencing his hot cars for him? If it did, wouldn't you have to go to the police just like I would?
D) "Lawyers"?!? Where the fuck do you live; in North Korea or something?
1) So you do live in North Korea! Or, well (Heh), Russia -- who cares, what's the diff?
2) So the weirdly-specific link to British vehicle registration procedures is... Because you're one of Kim Jong-Un's -- eh, I mean that other Über- kleotocrat, Putin's -- coterie, and keep your money and your children there?
3) Your whole argument is as stupid as that other guy's who claimed that "Bitcoin is needed to transfer money abroad". No, countries with dysfunctional systems -- be it for international money transfers or vehicle registration -- would need to uproot and rebuild their systems anyway, to base them on Bitcoin in stead of what they have now. But if they're uprooting and rebuilding anyway, then they can just rebuild to use the same systems that already work elsewhere -- without the whole blockchain mumbo-jumbo.
4) Two people who have actually used working online systems -- that British car owner and I -- have told you that such systems exist and work. But you seem to be just simply refusing to believe us, insisting that no such system could work without your blockchain mumbo-jumbo. One would think that residents of, and owners of cars registered in, Britain and Finland would know more about the car registration systems in Britain and Finland than a Russian. (Except, see #2 above?) So, besides your obvious violation of the "assume good faith" site guidelines in calling us liars, consider which of the two alternatives
a) You are right, and know more about the car registration systems in our countries than we do; we, OTOH, are either outright lying, or have deluded ourselves into thinking we got our cars registered in a much easier way than you know to be possible. (Or perhaps we both got incredibly lucky and got it done much easier than actually is possible.)
or
b) We are telling the truth, in our countries it is possible to easily get your car registered online without any blockchain mumbo-jumbo; and you, OTOH, are either misinformed, mistaken, or just plain obstinate (or deluded) --
-- which alternative would seem most reasonable under Occam's Razor?
[Edit: Tpyo.]