alt Hacker NewsInteresting distinction is deliberate vs unintentional accountability sinks.
DMV sounds more like incompetence than design. Compare with airline where the system is “better” when you have no recourse.
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dghlsakjg • yesterday at 2:33 PM
The DMV is frequently just a case of under resourcing. For the most part, once you get to the counter your business can be handled in a few minutes. It’s the fact that it takes a while to get to the counter that’s the issue.
Starting in four days, you will need, to board a commercial flight in the US or enter a federal government facility, either a passport, an 'enhanced' or 'real ID' driver's license, or one of a small class of alternatives. This has increased the burden on state DMVs, and any resulting deepening of the accountability sink is at least partly due to not doing anything to mitigate a predictable situation.