Should there be a national drivers license?

Question

should the federal government be the ones to decide if you can get your drivers license? wouldnt this count as a national ID card? the states do decided currently.. should it change? do we have a choice??
or should it just be left to the states?

AND WHY ??

Answer 1

No. Each State should have the right to issue licenses.

Answer 2

There is no "national" you use your state license. If you are going to be driving to less sophisticated areas you may wish to purchase an International Drivers License from your local AAA. It is a courtesy to the locals only, it is not needed just as people from Dubai only need their license to drive in the US. The "international" is only semi official and only good with your real license. It translates your drivers information, such as how big a vehicle you can drive and expiration dates, into a large number of languages. The international license is the size of a passport and multi paged. Some people are selling normal license sized ones as fake IDs.

Answer 3

"Should there be a national drivers license?", you asked?
- What about the nations who have put one in place , though?

I thought there already was? Call me stupid, but why did I gather together a bunch of original documents and show them to complete strangers? Why did I pay them by cheque?! What is it to them whether or not I can drive? Seriously. Should the fact that I am a citizen of a nation qualify me to drive on the motorway/s of that nation? Slaps head and sells car to a non-national human being ...

If I haven't driven a vehicle since 1957, am I OK to go, under your personal legislation? What if you decide to declare a war, and under your military rule, I am obliged to run over my pets and move house? Honestly. I don't mind in the least. Not only have you forgotten to ask me, but you missed out on the dictator lead role.

Do you mean to float the idea of a commonly acceptable licence between nations? Or is this only an issue if you can drive there? Is this about a frat. dare? Should this licence apply to any activity taking place in a car, though? Or any vehicle?
Should such goings on apply to private land, allowing the National Army the right to step on your land to investigate? Does it really matter whether you last voted for a person or an army?

What would fail you? The inability to define your burning need to enforce patriotism? Upon recent incomers?

What should that penalty be? Hmm. OK, you are a more than competent driver; you would be ace in the Grand Prix, if only you weren't a woman.

What?!

Gay men and alcoholics don't pay to watch the best drivers; they subscribe to these events to include their sons, are you crazy? Did you imagine that the sponsors adore black women and bribe the cameraamen to see them drive well? Name one!

Did you think that the most excellent and superb drivers on this planet are sponsored by the most wonderful companies imaginable? Did you imagine that the recorders of those events hope that everyone who is allowed to be involved, will live through the event?

Answer 4

No.

A national drivers' license would just lead to more bureaucracy. Ever had to make a trip to the Social Security Administration office? Or have you ever tried to get a passport? Those are done on the federal level and take FOREVER to go through any process with them. A national drivers license would be a terrible idea.

Answer 5

NO!
Would you really want the feds handling millions and millions of drivers license applicants?
Testing?
Renewals?

Six months after Sept. 11, hijackers' visa approval letters received
March 13, 2002 Posted: 5:07 AM EST (1007 GMT)

From Mark Potter and Rich Phillips
CNN Miami Bureau

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Six months to the day after Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service notified a Venice, Florida, flight school that the two men had been approved for student visas.

Rudi Dekkers of Huffman Aviation, where Atta, 33, and Al-Shehhi, 23, first trained in July 2000, showed the yellow INS forms to CNN during an interview Monday. Dekkers said he was surprised to get the forms at such a late date.

The INS had a different reaction.

"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date," said INS spokesman Russ Bergeron. "It does serve to illustrate what we have been saying since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting information and tracking foreign students is antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely."

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/inv.flight.school.visas/

Answer 6

First there should be national driver's education!!
As a nation, our driving ability & level of giving a damn about others on the road is going to hell in handbasket.
Let's demand some competency on the national level if the individual states can't be bothered.
Then see about licenses.

It might be a good idea though . . . someone in another state thought my New Mexico drivers license was a foreign card and fraudulent because it was trying to look like a US license!!

Answer 7

NO... each state should have the right to have their own license. The reason for this is...maybe one state has a lot of hills and curves, when another one doesn't have, so the driving conditions would be different in both states.
A license should be for the purpose of testing how well you can drive, not to just make people sign up. The road conditions could be different with each state, like in Hawaii, and Alaska. The person in Hawaii wouldn't have a clue, on how to drive on ice and snow, like in Alaska.

Answer 8

Hell no. We don't need another federal bureaucracy for driver's licenses, it's not necessary. It will just eat up more tax money, let the states continue to do their job. We don't need to put all this power into the federal government.

Answer 9

No, I know that the less control the federal government has over its citizens, the better. We have a great country divided by states and that is the way it should be.

Answer 10

yes it should be given