No smiling allowed.....

In Virginia you are no longer allowed to smile in your driver's license photo. The reason being they use facial recognition software and smiling supposedly messes it up.

Another way for the man to keep a sense of control I guess........

thats kinda weird in my opinon

Shawn wrote:thats kinda weird in my opinon

I know, after being there all day odds are you aren't going to feel like smiling. There are 3 more states, I can't remember which ones right now that are the same way.

Why would anyone want to smile after waiting hours in line?

MoFo_Blazed wrote:Why would anyone want to smile after waiting hours in line?

I agree, but I don't think they should be able to tell me I can't.

Me and my father had a 3 hour trip to the RMV today, I had to re-take my learners permit test (and failed, they made it a lot harder then when I first took it) and he had to renew his license.

Fun times, fun place. The employees seemed to take long, frequent breaks....

dannybva wrote:

MoFo_Blazed wrote:Why would anyone want to smile after waiting hours in line?

I agree, but I don't think they should be able to tell me I can't.

oh well least you dont gotta worry how your license photo comes out if your not smilin lol

Shawn wrote:

dannybva wrote:

MoFo_Blazed wrote:Why would anyone want to smile after waiting hours in line?

I agree, but I don't think they should be able to tell me I can't.

oh well least you dont gotta worry how your license photo comes out if your not smilin lol

I have to renew mine in a few months, I'll probably just do it online; which would keep the same pic and save the aggravation of going. Plus won't have to take a day off to go or spend my Saturday there.

im getting mine this summer.. going to be 17 in september kind of behind pretty sure the age you need to be is 16 probably woulda had one by now

Shawn wrote:im getting mine this summer.. going to be 17 in september kind of behind pretty sure the age you need to be is 16 probably woulda had one by now

Don't worry about being behind, i never could have afforded a car in high school (reasonably) and can equally not afford one now with all my money going to college, so I've gotten by without driving yet. To be honest I think the minimum age should be 18 as I don't think you should entrust such a dangerous potential weapon to a teenager.

Shawn wrote:im getting mine this summer.. going to be 17 in september kind of behind pretty sure the age you need to be is 16 probably woulda had one by now

I think is 16 and few months in VA now.