Decentralized Vehicle Registry on Blockchain

<p>The main aim of this project is to meliorate the experience of the customers by providing them with the complete authentic history of a vehicle – from the manufacturer till the time it reaches to scrap yard. In vehicle registration management system we store the details in a decentralized and distributed database with the help of which various departments can access vehicle details. Any renovation in the vehicle details will be reflected in every department. By using blockchain we can track the whole lifecycle of the vehicle like selling or buying because it provides transparent of the entire business. Blockchain provides us transparency and is very trustworthy in vehicle transactions, preventing all the disputes and also lowers the cost of service because of which many stakeholders, including car manufacturers, buyers, sellers, dealers, regulators and even garages ae benefited. By the help of blockchain we can track ownership, sale and accident history and helps in maintaining proper system for supply chains. It also ensures that the data remains consistent among various departments and also eliminate false data problem. The regional and local carmakers as a whole are also influenced.</p>

METHODS OF COMMITTING AND INVESTIGATION OF FRAUDULENT MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSACTIONS

Having set the goal to investigate and analyze modern methods of committing fraudulent motor vehicle transaction, we systematize and classify them. Special attention is paid to systematizing data on the identity of scammers, organized criminal groups and victims. Methodological recommendations aimed to create computer psychological profiles of scammers involved in fraudulent motor vehicle transactions are offered. Empirical methods of investigation based on available historical information about the peculiarities of the methods of committing crimes in fraudulent motor vehicle transactions are developed herein. Application of such methods will increase the effectiveness of law enforcement institutions in detecting, preventing and investigating fraudulent motor vehicle transactions.

A Department of Motor Vehicle–Based Intervention to Promote Organ Donor Registrations in New York State

Context: Examination of efficacy of motor vehicle representative educational training and dissemination of promotional materials as a means to promote organ donation enrollments in New York State. Objective: To increase the number of New York State residents who consent to donation through the department of motor vehicle transactions during project period. Setting: County-run motor vehicle offices across New York State. Participants: Customers who present to New York Department of Motor Vehicle offices and the representative who work at designated bureaus. Interventions: point-of-decision materials including promotional posters, brochures, website, and the motor vehicle representative training sessions. Main Outcome Measures: Reasons for enrollment decision, knowledge/experience with donation, monthly consent rates, enrollment in state organ, and tissue registry. Results: Customers who elected not to register reported no reason or uncertainty surrounding enrollment. The representatives reported experience with donation, discussion with customers, and need for additional education on organ donation. Enrollment cards were mailed to 799 project staff; counties where offices participated in intervention did not indicate significantly higher monthly enrollments when comparing pre- to postenrollment rates. Conclusions: Use of point-of-decision materials and enrollment cards proved inexpensive method to register customers with a 3.6% return rate. Customers report low (27%) enrollment rate and reticence to consent to donation. Educational training sessions with representatives did not yield significant enrollment increases when evaluating data at county-level enrollment.

The Psychological Effect of Weather on Car Purchases *

When buying durable goods, consumers must forecast how much utility they will derive from future consumption, including consumption in different states of the world. This can be complicated for consumers because making intertemporal evaluations may expose them to a variety of psychological biases such as present bias, projection bias, and salience effects. We investigate whether consumers are affected by such intertemporal biases when they purchase automobiles. Using data for more than 40 million vehicle transactions, we explore the impact of weather on purchasing decisions. We find that the choice to purchase a convertible or a four-wheel-drive is highly dependent on the weather at the time of purchase in a way that is inconsistent with classical utility theory. We consider a range of rational explanations for the empirical effects we find, but none can explain fully the effects we estimate. We then discuss and explore projection bias and salience as two primary psychological mechanisms that are consistent with our results.