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Its fascinating what EU can accomplish, but in my mind drivers licenses and "national IDs" (that are usable when travelling in EU) should be merged and unified
by sandos 4y ago
Its fascinating what EU can accomplish, but in my mind drivers licenses and "national IDs" (that are usable when travelling in EU) should be merged and unified over the union. Imagine how much simpler things would be! And this tech used in Germany sounds like a very nice base for it.
I mean I would also make them passports but I think that is impossible.
- joeschmopoe 4y agoLots of people don't have a license but do move around and across EU borders a lot. The IDs are actually heavily unified nowadays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the_European_Economic_Area#New_European_Union_standards_from_2019 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_t...
- bee_rider 4y agoI would imagine that different countries might had slightly different traffic laws or acceptable risk levels, so might want to have their own licensing schemes. Maybe the could have a unified form-factor that gets stamped by the individual countries though.
- joeschmopoe 4y agoThey do, all IDs are in ID-1 form factor, stamped by the countries and the EU [1]. It's the same for driver's licenses [2], they are accepted in all EU member states and basically look exactly the same, just in different languages and show a different flag. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the_European_Economic_Area#New_European_Union_standards_from_2019 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_t... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_driving_licence
- bobbruno 4y agoThis may be difficult for an American to understand, but a driver's license is not a core document, and many people may not have it. In most places it'd not come to mind in a discussion about digital ID.