— The process is ongoing and the working group meets regularly. We sincerely hope that monitoring OSAGO’s presence with cameras will be successful this year. Methodological problems remain, we want to minimize the number of possible complaints and problems with unfair or incorrectly imposed fines,” Mr. Ufimtsev said in an interview with our colleagues from Izvestia.

There really is a technical basis for implementing the idea: the quarantine system, the very system that helped catch freeriders at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when Russians had to self-isolate and issue a pass for each trip, was charged with the responsible mission of checking the availability of OSAGO policies for drivers.

However, it is not enough to solve hardware and software problems, it is also necessary to synchronize the databases of the traffic police and the RSA, develop unified protocols and rules for connecting regional complexes for photo and video recording of violations, and here a “plug” happened. Oddly enough, it was the traffic cops who stopped.

So what are the chances of this whole story now moving beyond the dead center it was at in 2020? In theory, it is quite possible to do everything you need in a few months, and then until the end of 2023, the cameras will really begin to “penalize” for driving without an OSAGO policy. But it’s hard to believe given the three-year delay. On the other hand, Russia is now going through far from the simplest of times, and the treasury needs money…

— The process is ongoing and the working group meets regularly. We sincerely hope that monitoring OSAGO’s presence with cameras will be successful this year. Methodological problems remain, we want to minimize the number of possible complaints and problems with unfair or incorrectly imposed fines,” Mr. Ufimtsev said in an interview with our colleagues from Izvestia.

There really is a technical basis for implementing the idea: the quarantine system, the very system that helped catch freeriders at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when Russians had to self-isolate and issue a pass for each trip, was charged with the responsible mission of checking the availability of OSAGO policies for drivers.

However, it is not enough to solve hardware and software problems, it is also necessary to synchronize the databases of the traffic police and the RSA, develop unified protocols and rules for connecting regional complexes for photo and video recording of violations, and here a “plug” happened. Oddly enough, it was the traffic cops who stopped.

So what are the chances of this whole story now moving beyond the dead center it was at in 2020? In theory, it is quite possible to do everything you need in a few months, and then until the end of 2023, the cameras will really begin to “penalize” for driving without an OSAGO policy. But it’s hard to believe given the three-year delay. On the other hand, Russia is now going through far from the simplest of times, and the treasury needs money…