2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

3. Interconnection of vehicle application using VIN The exchange of vehicle information between all entities of a national and international nature (which work professionally with cars) in information systems (IS) is carried out only through the world-unique VIN ( Vehicle Identification Number ). It is basically the birth number of the vehicle and during its life (with minimal exceptions) is unchanged, unlike the registration number of the vehicle, which in most European countries changes together with the car owner, in connection with changing the owner’s address between territorial units etc. VIN was defined by standards ISO 3779: 2009 (STN ISO 3779: 2013), ISO 3780: 2009 (STN ISO 3780: 2013). These standards are based on standards approved in 1983, ie ISO 3779: 1983 and ISO 3780: 1983. Current vehicle information checks check information from many reference databases, in which the VIN is usually entered manually. These are national central vehicle registers, information (search) police systems at the national and international level (Schengen, Interpol), information systems of insurance companies, leasing companies, Ministry of Transport, technical or emission control offices, originality or registration checks, executors, services, vehicle dealers, assistance services, etc. In these situations, there is a real danger that the inspection of vehicles from different information sources (with different manual methods of entering VIN) without additional checks on the correctness of VIN, has a potentially high error rate and inspection results may not always correspond to expected reality. 4. Consequences of VIN errors Due to an error in the VIN when searching the reference databases, the required vehicle is not found. But what does this mean in practice? It depends on how we ask how the negative information about the occurrence of the vehicle is methodically treated when querying the vehicle reference database, how we work with the returned information, what we expect and whether we are aware of any possible negative impacts. The information “there is no information about the vehicle of the given VIN” means, for example, that the vehicle was not stolen (not in search records), has no information registered to liquidate the insured event at various insurance companies (it was never crashed), is not execution blocked (not in court records), execution blockages), etc. However, if we entered the wrong VIN without realizing it, it means that the vehicle actually appears in these records and therefore we did not receive the relevant information, on the basis of which an incorrect decision was subsequently made. For example, it was wrong to decide on the purchase of a vehicle, securing a financial lease, transfer to another owner, etc. As a result, a considerable amount of damage occurs, so a certain entity is seriously damaged. A vehicle that has been stolen in another country is registered in the national register, the buyer has bought a stolen vehicle or a vehicle on which a court block is imposed, which can then be confiscated by the police or the insurance company repeatedly pays the insurance fraudster a fraudulent traffic accident, etc. The fact that the error rate in vehicle records is, for example, 10%, does not in fact mean that the resulting error rate is also 10%. If there is a mutual exchange of information

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