I went to some DMV(Department of Motor Vehicle) yesterday to apply a California driver's license.  Starting from registration, I was asked to put my right hand's thumb on a gadget at every counter: turning in my application, taking eye test, taking photo, taking written test on screen, and receiving an interim license.  It's a smart modus operandi indeed because each counter staff doesn't have to to check applicant's identification again and again. 

Regardless of the sophiscated fingerprint method, still the whole procedure in that DMV is much more complicated than its counterpart in Taipei, where all the applicants have to do is taking a number and waiting for their turn.  Whenever they are called to proceed to a designated counter, they can get their formal license there in ten minutes at most.  Everything is done by sitting in front of counter staff's computer, and clients not even having to stand up.  That was my own experience three years ago.  Of course, in America driver's license is the formal ID, whereas in Taiwan it is just an auxillary one.  But it can not justify the different efficiency between two places.     

Dear Mainladers, do you have same efficient services rendered to your people as the one as that of Taiwan?