Great thinking here. Very clever. We, in Virginia, are so very lucky to have such stunningly brilliant state employees. Why, I feel safer already!
It’s easy to not smile. Just pretend you’re in a long TSA line at the airport and your flight will close out in 5 minutes.
I’d rather not have my face catalogued in a government database thankyouverymuch.
I believe it’s a requirement that you need to be brain dead in order to work for the government. Never have I encountered people so incapable of actual thought as I have working for local/state/federal government.
Why don’t they just put a chip in our head?
Dudes - unless you change the law, I don’t have to show up in person until my 65th birthday, by which time I won’t have much to smile about anyway. :-)
Wearing a hijab is totally ok though. :’)
Facial recognition systems are already out there, dipstick DMV robot.
(Here in AZ they ask you to smile. I told her that I was smiling.;-) )
I think Virginia ought to worry more about registrations, especially for beltway snipers with the times and date of the WTC’s being struck written in, in the lower right hand corner.
Ugh.
The security software is designed to read the faces of individuals attempting to get licenses. And point out when a person using a particular SSN is not the face associated with it. If you smile it affects the face’s measurements and by extension, the readings that the software makes.
It is a good idea. And the dolts crying about illegal Mexicans getting fake IDs are prolly the same nitwits crying about this. </dealing with idiots is tedious>
dare I ping you?
Perhaps it’s not the worst thing in the world.
Let’s face it, this is going on at the Department of Motor Vehicles. First, there is nothing that goes on there for the average person to genuinely smile about anyway.
All the smiles on the licenses are fake smiles anyway, they don’t use all the muscles that a genuine smile uses around the eyes, and such. Maybe they’re having identity problems because when you match the fake smile on the license with the real person who might be smiling a genuine smile, they don’t match up perfectly.
Thanks DMV, for worrying about identity recognition problems we might face. /sarc
When you’re smiling, yes when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you....
They should emulate the process that is used by the Michigan Secretary of State. By the time you spend 2 hrs. in line, waiting for the Union worker at the desk to scowl at you and make flippant, sarcastic remarks, while 3 of his co-workers can be very clearly seen through a doorway on break, eating lunch and drinking coffee....when you finally get to the camera you are never smiling anyway.
Sounds like the software they load into the DMV employees.
I always smile when I have my government photos Passport, drivers license)taken. These workers want everybody to look as miserable as they probably are as human beings.
I have bangs and I just got my DL renewed. When I got there, the lady said I had to pull my bangs away from my face, which wasn’t written anywhere on my renewal letter or else I would have. They wouldn’t stay because they were too short and she started getting snotty with me. I said, “What do you want me to do, lady? I don’t have a pin or a bret. You want me to hold them there?!” Finally she just took the damn picture with my head tilted back so they would stay. Now it looks like I have a football player’s neck. It doesn’t look anything like me, really.