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In my country, the issuance of driver’s licenses is performed at the state level, not the national level. This has two ramifications.
REAL ID
The U.S. government wanted to tighten down on identification cards to stop terrorists from hijacking planes and crashing them into buildings.
But it couldn’t.
When it told the states to issue “REAL ID” cards by 2008, the states said they wouldn’t be told what to do.
Today all of them support REAL ID cards as an option, but use of REAL IDs for federal functions such as plane travel won’t be enforced until 2027…if then.
mDLs
For years there has been a move to replace physical driver’s licenses with mobile driver’s licenses, or mDLs.
Again, in my country this has been pursued in a piecemeal basis on the state level. Louisiana has its own mDL, with a separate one in Oklahoma, one in California, others in other states, and none in other states. And one state (Florida) that had one, then didn’t have one.
Some mDLs are in custom wallets, while others are or are not in wallets from Apple, Google, and Samsung.
Oh, and don’t try using your Louisiana mDL to buy a beer in Arkansas.
Meanwhile, in the UK
Things are different in other countries. Amit Alagh shared a BBC article with me.
“Digital driving licences are to be introduced in the UK as the government looks to use technology to ‘transform public services’…. The new digital licences will be introduced later this year….”
Throughout the entire United Kingdom, including Scotland and Northern Ireland, apparently.
In one fell swoop. Entire country done.
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