Vologda69 wrote: » Gardai do not have access to NVDF (driving licence database) based out of Shannon. Gardai who present at NDLS offices looking for information about particular drivers are asked to email RSA for permission to access data. Never goes down well. And photos are only recorded on driver files since October 2013.
artanevilla wrote: » The easiest solution to all these problems is....... Carry your licence with you at all times when driving as is required by law. No computers, no apps, no fancy systems talking to each other..... Just a tiny bit of plastic. The mind boggles, it really does.
grogi wrote: » Like grandpa did... In this date of age? Are you really that proud to be years after Eastern Europeans?
how.gareth wrote: » How do you expect them to know you have a license? You could be Someone who’s banned from driving and just give the guards your friends details when stopped and ask him to produce them at the station
Reati wrote: » It's a relic from time gone by. Like having tax and insurance checkpoints. In this case, using a handheld system that contains a copy of your drivers license. They already carry mobiles for stuff. Then they have a picture of you based on the details given like your license does? Not rocket science I don't think.
martingriff wrote: » What information would they need to call up you licence
ohnonotgmail wrote: » name and date of birth should suffice for most people. There is nothing magical or particularly difficult (from a technical perspective) about this. The real issue at the moment is that they have only been storing photos digitally since the plastic cards were introduced so anybody still on the old licence would not have a photo available as a digital file. Once all the old licences have expired this problem goes away.
Captain Obvious wrote: » Name and date of birth would not be sufficient. These are not unique
grogi wrote: » PPS is unique - but nobody would remember that.
grogi wrote: » They are a) easy to remember and easy to pass to the officer b) provide enough uniqueness to allow identification. PPS is unique - but nobody would remember that.
Captain Obvious wrote: » Uniqueness is not a scale. Name and date of birth alone are not unique and using them as an identifier runs the risk of records of different persons being mixed up.
martingriff wrote: » They are not unique. Unique means there is no one else with that combination. There may have 3 grogi born on the same name unlikely but can happen Cant go checking all be a data breach
BorneTobyWilde wrote: » I carried licence for few months and it cracked into 3 pieces. How is it suppose to survive in ones pocket. I don't use a wallet, I don't need to have something bulky in my pocket.
martingriff wrote: » So where do you hold your cash or bank cards
ohnonotgmail wrote: » On their own they are not 100% guaranteed to be unique. But they are sufficient for an initial search and will return a single result for the VAST majority of cases. If multiple results are returned for the name/dob combination then further criteria can be used. This is not a difficult or unique problem.
grogi wrote: » In a phone?!
ohnonotgmail wrote: » There would not be a data breach as the garda would be doing the search as part of their duties.
martingriff wrote: » No as they opened someone elses details not the person they were talking to
....... wrote: » I was stopped recently and asked to produce my licence to nearest Garda Station within 10 days. I dont get it. What does it achieve? It made work for me having to go up there, find parking, go in and produce it. It made work for the guy in there, recording the details. And it made work for the guy who requested I produce it, checking that it was produced. But to what end? 3 people have now done some work - for what? For the original guy to just cross out that i did it? Is that all it is - a box ticking exercise? Surely the Gardai know if I have a valid licence or not from the computer system? And if they dont - why dont they? Why is millions being wasted annually on people traipsing up and showing their licence and 2 Guards wasting time on it? Is it just make work?
ohnonotgmail wrote: » You really need to think of the implications of what you are saying.
martingriff wrote: » Well there you go. New licence same size as bank card.
martingriff wrote: » Sorry but no just because it will work x% means it can be used. It has to work for everyone the same. Also as someone says what do we do for foreign licences
