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That, and the concept of the driver's license as the definitive ID document is quasi exclusively and strongly connoted as a funny US peculiarity.
by wazoox 16y ago
That, and the concept of the driver's license as the definitive ID document is quasi exclusively and strongly connoted as a funny US peculiarity.
- arethuza 16y agoI'm in the UK and my driver's license is the only form of "official" ID I normally carry. Much to my delight, we canceled the silly project to issue government ID cards.
- rbanffy 16y agoWho issued your driver's license?
- rmc 16y agoThe UK Government
- arethuza 16y agoBut not everyone had a drivers license or a passport - so they wanted everyone to have a separate ID card. Generally, having a formal ID has only been required in the UK during dire emergencies (i.e. World Wars) and contrary to what the government of the time thought we are not in the middle of such a crisis.
- rbanffy 16y agoThe point is not the government issuing you an ID. The problem comes when it require you to carry it at all times.
- kleiba 16y agoEvery German older than 16 is required by law to have an ID card or passport. As of November 2010, ID cards carry RFID chips with the same data that's written on the card plus an optional fingerprint. Passports have had the chip for a while already, but the fingerprint is mandatory there. Driver's licenses are not considered a valid means of identification outside traffic.
- masklinn 16y agoLikewise in France, except as far as I know there are no rfid chips in the national id card (yet anyway). And in belgium (where the ID card is the size of a credit card and has a small chip, I don't know if it has an RFID chip)
- robryan 16y agoIn Australia it would be a major hassle to not carry around a drivers license, not all the time but things always come up where you need ID and a drivers license usually covers that.
- wazoox 16y agoShould we really consider how it's done in a country where people drive on the wrong side of the road? :)
- masklinn 16y agoIn France, the driver's license isn't even allowed as an ID, passport or ID card yes, license no.
- StavrosK 16y agoSame in Greece, I don't know anyone who uses their driver's license as an ID. I'm not sure if it's disallowed explicitly, but nobody does it.
- dagw 16y agoI'd estimate that about half the people I know in Sweden and in Norway, under 35, don't actually have a drivers license. And of those half again have no real intention of getting one.