DMV Tests
Re “DMV Tries to Stem the Tide of Fake Licenses,” April 5: What about the perfectly legal ways in which the DMV allows one to obtain a license fraudulently? When I moved to California and got a driver’s license in 1996, I was appalled to find:
* Applicants were not supervised as they took the written test, so that many of them were just copying from the study booklet.
* The person grading the test kept forgetting that the exam paper had two sides; he passed you if your mistakes on the first side alone weren’t sufficient to disqualify you, never checking the second side.
And this was in Thousand Oaks, which has a relatively “upscale” DMV office. If the DMV is worried about people wrongly obtaining licenses, it should blame its own shabby testing procedures first.
MATT NEUBURG
Ojai
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