For 25 years,texas drivers have bee...

For 25 years,texas drivers have been getting their licenses the old-fashioned way: going to the local licensing bureau, filling not at home forms, having their picture taken--and waiting 30 days to 45 days to receive their of the present day license in the mail.

secondary only to California in the number of driver licenses it issues, Texas replaced its film-based licenses with an all-electronic classification from Polaroid Electronic Imaging a whole s Bedford, Mass.

"The just discovered Texas licenses have three main benefits," says Col James Wilson, director of the Department of Public Safety (DPS) the state agency responsible for driver licensing. "They are secure; they are nearly counterfeit-proof; and they direct the eye great."

Texas installed 378 workstations in 185 permanent license bureaus and another 72 workstations in rural mobile bureaus.

Each workstation captures and stores applicants' personal information, portraits, fingerprints and signatures and transfers the information to a local server

The server