*Impact of Digital Vehicle Identification Errors on Critical Information Systems DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.107888*

The database holds all the VIN information on a global scale, defined by vehicle manufacturers since 1986, when the VIN was defined as a worldwide unique identifier and made mandatory in automotive practice. The knowledge database contains approximately 8,900 basic type models for decoding the VIN structure of vehicles operating in the European Union. The knowledge database thus analytically covers 99.8 % of registered vehicles (including motorcycles, trucks, buses, tractors, semi-trailers, trailers, work machines, etc.).

Quality of this sample was checked using the special VINdecoder application (product name VINexpert). This application was originally designed and is still used in the Czech and Slovak Republics to decode the basic information contained in the VIN of a specific vehicle for the needs of the integrated rescue system within the framework of the pan-European eCALL project in cases where a vehicle has crashed and sent a distress signal [18], containing, among other things, its VIN identifier [19, 20].

The VIN of the crashed vehicle is transmitted from the vehicle using the network of mobile telephone operators and subsequently decoded. This provides the emergency services with basic information about.
