Does Maryland (population 6.2 million) have a good reason for issuing drivers licenses with ID that are one letter and *twelve* digits, when California (population 39.5 million) finds one letter and seven digits to be quite sufficient?
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NJ is worse.
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Not only is it more characters (15), it is in fact entirely derivable from your name, DOB, gender, and eye color. Meaning, it's not necessarily unique.
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Replying to @haroldliss @khuey_
Reminds me of chinese national ID numbers, which are: * 6 digit code for birthplace or place of issue * 8 digit YYYYMMDD date of birth * 3 digit order code disambiguating multiple people with the same numbers above, using even numbers for women and odd for men * 1 digit checksum

Sep 16, 2021 · 11:45 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @khuey_
Not so different, but even disambiguation is a better feature! The NJ DL# is basically just a checksum on the rest of the data on the card.