In 1992, the U.S. Federal government commissioned a national database of vehicle titles, in an effort to curb theft and fraudulent titling of vehicles, where a damaged or salvaged car is retitled in another state, to get a clean title. This database would have come in quite handy after Hurricane Katrina, which damaged thousands of cars and caused a lot of trouble for the government and insurance companies, who tried to keep up with which Louisiana vehicles were damaged by the floods and which weren’t. Read on for more details.
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