Having lived in a metro area crawling illegal aliens as well as places where the native locals are dirt po'(1) makes me think about the practical applicability of these sorts of "creeping statist" sorts of laws.
For all practical purposes, dirt p'(2) and illegals are largely exempt form these sorts of laws(3). They can drive with anchor babies & rug rats stacked to the rafters in their extended cab pickup, not a child safety seat in sight, no insurance, no inspection, bald tires, and burning so much oil in their motor you'd swear it was coal-fired.
For various reasons, some similar & some dissimilar, po' natives and illegals get a pass many times:
1. LEO knows they are too poor to pay any sort of fine. If LEO & uninsured are local & the p' SOB driving is a decent sort, he slides on by.
2. Illegals most times engage in identity fraud, so who knows if any of the addresses on the papers is good...and how much is the fine relative to new fraudulent papers?
3. Time is less valuable than money to these folks and they will sit it out in jail instead of paying if they are cited...assuming they get nabbed for something else after never paying the fine. And the gov't cares about the money more than anything else.
4. etc., etc.
Thing is, these are the folks most likely to drive without insurance.
Lower middle class & on up take every one of these sorts of chickenshit laws in the face:
1. Insurance
2. Child safety seats
3. Inspection
4. etc...
Yet LMC & on up are the most likely to comply with the law. For an illegal or dirt po' native to get nabbed on something like this, they usually have to get liquored up and drive drunk into a tree or another auto.
So, given that the demographics most likely to get liquored up & drive are also the demographics most likely to drive without insurance, I see no reason for a blanket law and/or soem sort of new & improved law & power in this area.
My standard for support/opposition to laws these days has a second automatic check(4):
"Will this be applied to illegal aliens and po' natives like it will be applied to regular folks, or will they get a pass much of the time?"
WRT insurance, the answer is a resounding "NO."
So, I don't support the furtherance of these laws and the authority/ability of LEOs to harass solid citizens while letting the problem children slide on by.
(1) So poor that they can not afford the second "O" and the "R." Pronounced "poe."
(2) The poorer cousins of those in Note (1) who can not afford even the first "O." Pronounced "p'uh."
(3) Some localities with lotsa money and bored LEOs will give some of the p' folks a hard time, but these seem to be the exception. Also, such laws will be used as a pretext to stop and snoop for something more serious.
(4) First being, "Is this constitutional?"