Verifiable Credentials for Drivers and Vehicles: California DMV's Use Cases and the COVESA Collaboration
Ballroom D
11:55 AM - 12:20 PMWed
Business Session Presentation
Scheduled to Speak
Jilian Metz
Project Manager, California DMV Program Lead
Digital Bazaar Inc.
A Verifiable Credential is a digitally signed statement from a trusted issuer, such as a DMV, that the holder keeps in a wallet and presents only when needed. The verifier checks the issuer's signature rather than calling the issuer or keeping a copy of the document, and the holder controls what is disclosed. California DMV issues this W3C standard today through the CA DMV Wallet to more than two million monthly active users, and is now applying the same technology to the vehicle itself. California's interest is practical: paper-era documents cost the state and its residents billions of dollars a year and put people at risk. This session walks through the use cases California DMV brought to COVESA: vehicle sales fraud and title washing ($3.4B/yr), uninsured motorists (20% of drivers), safer traffic stops, accident response during the golden hour, disabled person parking fraud, automated emissions compliance, digital commercial driver's licenses, and automated registration for the state's five million fleet vehicles. It closes with the resulting Vehicle Credentials Vocabulary now developed openly in COVESA's GitHub, and how OEMs, insurers, fleet operators, and other jurisdictions can get involved.