Look like they are reviving the push towards digital licences
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Iâm yet to read the article, but couldnât the Mail find an older licence image?
I hope so! Passports next please!
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Interesting reading that article. Throughout it, repeated reference to âolder driversâ and their difficulties with computers and phones. Funny that, but even in my local park, Iâve oft seen âelderlyâ folk, sitting on a park bench with a mobile phone glued to their ears. Not only that, most people under the age of 70, are fully conversant with using phones and many are also able to use a computer. And of course, most young people now born in the 21st Century, will absolutely know how to use modern technology when they reach their eighties. At the ancient age of 53, Iâve just completely rebuilt my desktop and Iâm not an expert. What a dumb and ageist article that is.
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Itâs taking up the vanguard for the âopt outâ elderly, who have the opposite attitude to yours.
You know the kind of people (thankfully in a minority); you are explaining to them how to renew their TV license online and they go âwhy would I want to do that, itâs fine at the Post Office - Iâm too old to change nowâ.
Also there is a segment of society that views virtually all technology as invented by the devil and something theyâd rather do without. This can include people of all ages.
Iâm not among them, obviously!
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As Sydney Smith said, never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was never reasoned into him and it never can be reasoned out of him.
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It was in the vain hope that good sense would prevail. Weâll remove those posts which do, and would continue to, cause offence (and the replies, if you donât mind?)
If we can leave it there, thatâll be grand?
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If the truth offends people they should simply ignore people as Discourse allows them to do
Whilst personally I am a fan of the idea, I do think like a lot of things it should be down to choice.
There are many who donât want their lives digitised and no matter what others may think, they should have that option.
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Providing that choice costs more money though. You canât have it both ways if you care about the government saving money.
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As it is a thing already, I suspect that it will inevitably arrive in the U.K. at some stage.
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Just a few rungs up from a Railcard?
Sounds eminently sensible.
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Well will see how the digital driving licence takes off. Just worried about physical Iâd.
It needs to integrate into Wallet, otherwise Iâd rather carry a plastic card around than download yet another shoddily implemented app requiring the internet to work for âsecurityâ (looking at you, Railcard)
And it needs to present a QR code that police/banks/whoever can scan because you bet I wonât be handing my unlocked phone (or even locked phone) over to anyone to check my ID/driving entitlements
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Are you serious???
At the moment, we have a physical railcard, but do use the trainline app for tickets, and that doesnât need internet once the tickets are active (or at least I donât think it does)
Apparently not anymore â a couple of years ago when I got my last railcard Iâm sure I opted for the physical one still because it said it would need an internet connection and I was thinking âyes, but tunnels and the middle of nowhere and stuffâŚâ
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Ah. I took a screenshot of my card. Just showed that to the chap on the train - job done 
It used to! They peddled the BS security/validity line as their reason for not supporting the wallet, only then supported it in the end anyway? 
The cards used to have to stay in the train line app. Donât think they needed an internet connection, but it had an animated date/time ticker to ensure validity, which was why no Apple Wallet.
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Wait, Trainline now support apple wallet? Thatâs nice!
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As this thread is seemingly no longer relevant to road vehicle digital driving licences, who reckons train drivers will be given a digital train drivers licence? 
Joking aside, it seems whether people wish to accept it or not, weâre living in a more digitised world. I really canât understand in the 21st Century, why there are still so many folks who want to live in bygone eras. As said above, the only people this all apparently seems to affect if you believe the stories, are the âelderlyâ who are seemingly miserable gits who canât move on for some reason.
At the end of the day, my physical driving licence like with so many people, is only used to prove ID at my local Post Office for picking up Amazon parcels. In the 35 years Iâve held a driving licence, Iâve never once had to show it to a Police Officer.
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