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A bit clickbaity is a reasonable criticism, but not "end of story". I think it's pretty reasonable to expect that older licenses that had these sort of automat
by quadrifoliate 5y ago
A bit clickbaity is a reasonable criticism, but not "end of story".
I think it's pretty reasonable to expect that older licenses that had these sort of automatic endorsements unbacked by any experience should have been excluded from the letters – so there is a story here. 1999 was 22 years ago!
- gumby 5y agoGerman driving licenses didn’t use to have expiration dates and I haven’t read that that changed. My ex still uses hers, issued in the mid 80s with a photo of her in her 20s
- tjansen 5y agoNewer driver licences issued after 2013 do have expiration dates. Older ones without printed expiration date will eventually expire, depending on the owner's birth year and the year they have been issued. The first ones will expire in 2022 (for drivers licences issued before 1999 and drivers born 1953-1958). If she was in her 20s in the 80s, it will probably expire in 2023 or 2024. https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/reise-mobilitaet/unterwegs-sein/alter-fuehrerschein-mindestens-bis-2022-gueltig-auch-in-allen-eustaaten-10393 https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/reise-mobilitaet/u...
- tharkun__ 5y agoIf you click through to the BMVI, nothing really changes. Basically just the format. I.e. the old paper driver's licenses expire first ("Lappen") and you just get a new plastic card with a new photo. However you are still allowed to drive exactly what you were allowed to drive beforehand and the license expiry seems to be 15 years after that. Even some of the plastic card ones will expire and you get a new plastic card. Funny that I have to read this on HN though. Gotta go back and get a new card in a few years it seems lol EDIT: Downvote? For giving extra information? In case this is post-Brexit racism, I don't live in the UK so keep it to yourselves.
- tomjen3 5y agoI have a Danish drivers license and it will expire when I turn 70. I got it at 24, you can guess how likely it is that anybody could recognize me on the picture by then. These days the licenses are only valid for 10 years, so the picture might actually be useful.
- WalterBright 5y ago> 1999 was 22 years ago! It sure was. Back then, a mule pulled my car. We didn't have rubber tires, I'd take the wheels to the wheelwright's shop and have a new iron rim put on now and then. On the weekends I'd go varmint hunting with my trusty flintlock.
- labster 5y agoBack in 1999, they had to do self-driving updates over the air, which was by carrier pigeon. Worked pretty well, but you had to wash your car more often.
- munk-a 5y agoHey - at least you could listen to Nevermind while sitting for six hours for the portrait painter to finish their work.
- WalterBright 5y agoHalf my family died of dysentery while driving the wagon to Oregon one summer in the 90's.
- OJFord 5y agoDysentery? Luxury!
- MaxBarraclough 5y agoIs it true that in the before times, you'd have to manually deallocate memory?
- tux3 5y agoIt's well known that most programs had automatic memory deallocation in the before times: your tool would call malloc, process its input, and let the OS free memory as soon as it exited. But some of the fanciest programs, like the Bourne Shell, were even more automatic: they didn't have to manually manage each allocation either. You'd simply write right on the heap and have your SIGSEGV handler do a brk() every so often!
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoSomeone was told to write a query for all people who could legally operate heavy trucks. They did it. End of story. The person who ordered it and the person who wrote it probably didn't even know of the old technicality.