Wipe that f**king smile off your face!

[Harry Monroe]

Four states adopt 'no-smiles' policy for driver's licenses

By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
Stopping driver's license fraud is no laughing matter: Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos.

"Neutral facial expressions" are required at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) in Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia. That means you can't smile, or smile very much. Other states may follow.

The serious poses are urged by DMVs that have installed high-tech software that compares a new license photo with others that have already been shot. When a new photo seems to match an existing one, the software sends alarms that someone may be trying to assume another driver's identity.

But there's a wrinkle in the technology: a person's grin. Face-recognition software can fail to match two photos of the same person if facial expressions differ in each photo, says Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Takeo Kanade.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-25-licenses_N.htm?se=yahoorefer

[graywarrior]

1. D'oh! They make us smile in NH

[Vickers]

2. Yup, they asked me to smile here in Florida.

:)

[rurallib]

3. you need a license to drive??? when did that happen???

(couldn't resist)

[rocktivity]

4. I once saw a sign advertising a "Drive-By" driving school, but the storefront was empty

I didn't know that drive-by shooters needed licenses. But then again, since you need a license to drive as well as own a firearm, maybe you do. What do you suppose the final exams are like?

:crazy:
rocktivity

[Creideiki]

5. Who in those states is going to smile anyway?

Four of the most miserable rightwing states in the country.

[Orsino]

6. FaceCrime.

Y'all know what to do. :D