Florida comes through again

[fightingquaker13]

Sometimes I despair of this state. I just got my drivers licence renewal notice today. What do I need to do to renew? Mail the Governor $48. I mean look. I have no more desire to stand in line behind a bunch of Haitians for the great joy that is dealing with the workers at the DMV any more than the next guy. Still, its been seven years since I got my licence. Do you not think they would want to see my face to make sure I was me? Maybe give me a vision test before turning me loose on the roads? Because hello, I got the very traditional "you're almost 40" birthday gift of realizing that your arms are only so long and yes you do in fact need glasses because otherwise you aren't going to be able to read that book. I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Still, it would reassure me to at least know that my fellow motorists had their vision tested at least once in a decade, just so they can swerve around the iguanas.
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[twyacht]

Renew online, skip the line, and kick that iguana....

[crusader rabbit]

FQ, what happened to the widely publicized need for a ba-zillian pieces of ID, blood type, DNA sample and notarized picture of your firstborn?

Florida was supposed to be at the leading edge of the new universal ID system.  I think HAZ had to show a birth certificate, a utility bill, and some other form of ID. 

Just wonderin' .  If you can "skate by" by doing it on line, why would any terrorist want to go to the DMV?

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[m25operator]

I actually had to go the Dept of Public safety last year to renew, before that, it was 15 years, and my next review with vision test will be in 2015, here in Texas, if your driving record is clean, you get favors. Last time was passing the 50 year mark.

[Timothy]

We have to have new picture taken every ten years.  Other than that, we can do it on line, even when I'm blind, senile, pooping in my diddies old...like some of you guys!   

My father in law joked when he renewed on his eightieth that he would need to go back till he was ninety.  He stopped driving a few weeks later. 

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[PegLeg45]

Just renewed mine last year for 10 years online. My wife renewed hers a few years back via snail-mail for 15 years (but Ga soon after went to a 10 yr max). The state does have an age cut-off for online and and mail renewals....but it is upwards of 64 because of the vision test.

[SwoopSJ]

Wow, I wish it were that easy to renew your license in Kentucky!  We are forced to actually go to the DMV, no online nor mail option, every four years!  You aren't required to submit a stool sample when renewing, however, our current license is good enough.  If you lose your license, it's a different story, though.  Then I think you are required to present a birth certificate, social security card, and piece of mail addressed to you.  KY may also require another form of id, when replacing a lost license, but I can't remember.

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[ericire12]

Shouldn't the libertarian in you want there to be no such thing as government issuing a license to drive?

[fightingquaker13]

Shouldn't the libertarian in you want there to be no such thing as government issuing a license to drive?

Yep. But the sane person in me who has to share the road with half the freaking third world, construction dump trucks driven by drivers apparently payed in crack or meth, and geriatric yankees who can't see over the damn steering wheel disagrees.  
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[tombogan03884]

We have to have new picture taken every ten years.  Other than that, we can do it on line, even when I'm blind, senile, pooping in my diddies old...like some of you guys!   

My father in law joked when he renewed on his eightieth that he would need to go back till he was ninety.  He stopped driving a few weeks later. 

He's not kidding, I've been behind that person on Rt 1, 45 MPH zone and Ma Kettle is doing a whopping 20 miles an hour.