Re:Coding Horror: Your Internet Driver's License
by alextgordon on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @03:49PM
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Personally, the idea I have in my mind of a (US) driver's license is a universally-accepted form of ID that anyone can get.
Don't you have to take a test to obtain a licence? Here in the UK the test is relatively difficult and expensive, so not everybody has a licence. Passports are much cheaper, easier to obtain and don't come with age limits, so they are a more universal form of ID (though they are also bulky and hardly something you would carry around on you).
When most people think of driver's licenses, do they really think government certification, or do they think universal ID? I would be honestly interested in the answer.
When I think of driver's licences, I think of driving a car. Universal ID doesn't occur.
Don't you have to take a test to obtain a licence? Here in the UK the test is relatively difficult and expensive, so not everybody has a licence. Passports are much cheaper, easier to obtain and don't come with age limits, so they are a more universal form of ID (though they are also bulky and hardly something you would carry around on you).
When most people think of driver's licenses, do they really think government certification, or do they think universal ID? I would be honestly interested in the answer.
When I think of driver's licences, I think of driving a car. Universal ID doesn't occur.