If the RDW is, will by 2020 be possible to have a driver’s license digitally on a smartphone, reports the Telegraph. Thus, it is from that moment no more need for the physical plastic card always to have at the time that a motor vehicle is controlled. Introduction of a digital licence for the Netherlands, however, still some hooks and eyes. In the Netherlands, the driving licence also be used as official identification document.
in Response to the statements by the RDW, is the final disappearance of the paper driving licence. This past weekend was the validity of the last paper licence that is still in circulation was passed. Thus, all people with a driver’s license is currently a new plastic card in possession that the paper driving licence replaces. All driving licences since 2014 have been issued are equipped with an NFC chip. This NFC chip allows the driving licence is also already digitally stored.
It is intended that in the future a possible going to be the digital driving licence is also a NFC chip in a smartphone. Currently have a large number of smartphones that are in circulation about an NFC chip. Also new sim cards from KPN and Vodafone have already come with a built-in NFC chips. That way it would be possible in the future should be to the driver’s license on a smartphone to store and to recall, through a special app.
How the digital driver’s license on smartphoes in the Netherlands designed will be is currently a point of research and discussion. The RDW underlined that although there are ambitions are a digital driver’s license on a smartphone as possible, to make the arrival of it is not yet certain.
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