Re: Digital Driving Licence
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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I didn't say it was kept as a photo on your phone (though I keep my Medicare and Driving licence as a photo on my phone) I said it was LIKE a photo on your phone - it is in an app.
Every car has a way of charging your phone, everybody can afford a power bank. These are just silly objections, wallets can be stolen or left at home, everything has some short coming but these days most people would not leave home without their phone.
One reasonable objection is that you can not touch your phone in NSW if your engine is running so you have to wait until a policeman asks to see your licence.
Bruce I don't bother to carry a charging cord in my car. If the phone dies that's ok because I don't need it. We are far too reliant on little electronic contraptions. People on the train sit there staring at them with little frown lines forming and their mouths down turned.
When we arrived at a restaurant yesterday a friend laughed because everyone but her had taken their phone out and we were all sitting and staring at our screens.
It's a great money spinner for technology manufacturers but we lived perfectly well before all this rubbish. It's just contributing to a mobile phone landfill somewhere and shareholder wealth.
You change your phone and you have to suddenly remember all these stupid passwords. I'm just transferring stuff to a new phone and when I try to use apps it asks for registration info. I tried to move personal data but it said it didn't have enough memory! What a stupid waste of our time.
This technology will be obsolete in a few years so this is just a gravy train for developers and a headache for the rest of us. Who knows how secure it is. Now people are even putting chips into their bodies. That will be next.
What's wrong with a card or paper licence?