Will driving license be obsolete in the future ?

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by August

Didn't the Feds do an end run around the issue a few years back by standardizing state DLs?

There was the REAL ID act of 2005 that established some basic standards of what information should be on a driver's license. Prior to that, State issued driver's licenses were rather diverse in nature.

The information is still maintained by the State Government, so technically it is not a "national ID card". But let's be honest, the federal government has access through the states. Simply keeping information at the state level does not mean that the federal government can't have access.

However the amount of data available to the government (state and federal) still pales in comparison to what Google and other mega-corporations already know, share, and sell about us.