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by judge2020 1139 days ago
> * My car insurance is currently only on my phone, and the printed cards in my glovebox are years out of date. I cannot drive.

Not sure if this is the norm elsewhere, but in Georgia police don't always ask for your insurance card anymore because they're able to lookup your insurance information when they run your tag.

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I was used to this too and got pulled over in Utah and ticketed because Utah can’t do that, my insurance card is in an app not saved to my phone, and we were in a desert with no signal.

That Utah cop was a jerk. Now I have a pdf on my phone’s drive and a print out in the glovebox.

In the state I am in the police are able to lookup your insurance information, but it is still against regulation to drive without your insurance documentation.
AFAIK, Georgia still requires you to have a paper copy in the car even though cops can verify off the tag.