QR code instead of driver’s license: an official experiment will be conducted in Russia

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Digital Development of Russia) is going to conduct an experiment in a number of regions to replace driver’s licenses with QR codes.

QR code instead of driver's license: an official experiment will be conducted in Russia

Deputy Minister Oleg Kachanov told about this during the Gaidar Forum. Kachanov said:

We already have a definite plan, we have worked out, coordinated it with colleagues from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in the format of an experiment would like to launch it in 2021 on the territory of the selected subjects, the most digital ones, which are in the first four. ”

According to Kachanov, such a decision will allow drivers not to carry a vehicle registration certificate and driver’s license with them. All the necessary information can be provided using a QR code in a special mobile application. Kachanov explained:

The inspector could read the QR code with a suitable reader and obtain information. If you forgot your right at home, you sit [в машине] you don’t shake, because the phone is always with you, you will definitely not forget it. “

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