By now, most California drivers know there’s a serious problem with the Department of Motor Vehicles. Many know what it feels like to spend hours in the grips of a failing state bureaucracy, I’ve been through it too.
Fixing the DMV requires changes from the top down — changes that must happen immediately. To start, we are calling for the immediate halt to all voter registrations until an independent audit has been completed. If the DMV can’t even register our cars right, it has no business registering voters. And it’s true that lines are longer because more people are going to offices for the new licenses, which the federal government is requiring starting in 2020 for people who want to board a flight without a passport, but can they fix something with appointment scheduling? People got things to do and places to be, obviously the DMV could care less about people’s precious time and have them wait around till’ closing hours.
But can we do something about their technology system? Their computer system is so out-of-date, can’t believe these things are still running after decades. An underlying cause of the DMV’s misery this year is a familiar one in California state government: A creaky, decades-old computer system the department agrees is “a 40-year-old dinosaur.” I mean this isn’t the only possible reason that the DMV is lacking on efficient appointment times and walk-ins.
It’s already 2019, our technology and computer systems are most definitely advanced in our world, employees in the DMV are efficiently trained to be top notched in their area of forte, so why does it still take hundreds of years to register vehicles, pass your permit or behind-the-wheel test, and renew ID’s? The DMV needs to take action now or people who continue to wait will be waiting for their extinction!
Fixing the DMV requires changes from the top down — changes that must happen immediately. To start, we are calling for the immediate halt to all voter registrations until an independent audit has been completed. If the DMV can’t even register our cars right, it has no business registering voters. And it’s true that lines are longer because more people are going to offices for the new licenses, which the federal government is requiring starting in 2020 for people who want to board a flight without a passport, but can they fix something with appointment scheduling? People got things to do and places to be, obviously the DMV could care less about people’s precious time and have them wait around till’ closing hours.
But can we do something about their technology system? Their computer system is so out-of-date, can’t believe these things are still running after decades. An underlying cause of the DMV’s misery this year is a familiar one in California state government: A creaky, decades-old computer system the department agrees is “a 40-year-old dinosaur.” I mean this isn’t the only possible reason that the DMV is lacking on efficient appointment times and walk-ins.
It’s already 2019, our technology and computer systems are most definitely advanced in our world, employees in the DMV are efficiently trained to be top notched in their area of forte, so why does it still take hundreds of years to register vehicles, pass your permit or behind-the-wheel test, and renew ID’s? The DMV needs to take action now or people who continue to wait will be waiting for their extinction!