Iowa replaces drivers license with app

CNN ^ | 12/11/2014 | David Goldman

[Borges]

Next year, the Iowa Department of Transportation will experiment with issuing drivers licenses via an app. The digital license will display a 3-D photo of the driver's face, which can be rotated side to side so law enforcement can better match the licensee to the picture.

[Borges]

[Sasparilla]

What next, holograms?

[lee martell]

I still would want a card in m wallet. What if I leave the phone at home when I use the car and get stopped by a cop?
Also, any personal document online is subject to all manner of hacking and mutilation.

[Fungi]

What happens if your phone provider makes a mistake, cancels payment for a late payment not received, or a payment lost in the mail, or your bank makes a mistake, or you change service or change phones? What happens if you loose your phone and you get pulled over? What happens when someone who looks like you steals your phone? What happens when someone hacks all your info off your phone and the cop does not recognize it? What happens when..............

[Dilbert San Diego]

These are all good questions. Not sure there are good answers.

[familyop]

“Replaces drivers license with app?” Baloney. Not everyone has a so-called smart phone, and many will continue to shun them. No one will be successful in mandating that everyone be forced to buy one.

[morphing libertarian]

Thumbprint to cops tablet links to dmv db

[tommix2]

What is an app?

[FoxInSocks]

Not everyone has a so-called smart phone, and many will continue to shun them.

Everyone can get an obamaphone! And if you don't want want one . . . well, then you won't be allowed to drive.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “What is an app?” <<

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A misspelled Ape?
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[txnativegop]

stupid does not begin to describe this idea.

anything electronic can be hacked, stolen or worse.

politicians: pathetic, self-serving sh—heads!

[dalereed]

Since I won’t have a smart phone I’ll stay out of Iowa!

[Dilbert San Diego]

App is short for application or software application program.

[editor-surveyor]

Gee really?

[Scrambler Bob]

Or they pull me out of a lake after a boating accident.

Dead app machine. Card would still be good.

[mowowie]

NSA will just love those 3D photo’s...

[RitchieAprile]

that is coming. cloning instances of ourselves and casting them as whatever personality happens to be needed.

[Scrambler Bob]

Not everyone has a so-called smart phone,

Are bo phones smart?

Mass mail drivers liscences, EBT cards, Voter registrations, etc. to all bo phones.

[Nailbiter]

guess they will charge extra for the real thing.
No smart phone- pony up for your document.