AAMVA Blog: Recent Comments

Comment on A Fair Shake

Lisa Sherwin — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:29:21 GMT

Just wanted to pass on an interesting --humorous piece on teen driving I found today.

http://www.justaskasa.com/answer.asp?Answer=847

Comment on Smart Money Just Lost Sense

Ed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:35:27 GMT

I humbly take issue with the posit that elderly drivers are among the safest. Driving depends on vision, attention, reactions, and even strength. No reasonable person claims these traits do not deteriorate with age. For much of our lives, we can use gains in judgeement and experience to offset losses in our phyiscal attributes, but this equation will eventually catch up to us all. I'd like to see any study on drivers over 70 that doesn't reflect an increase in accidents per mile of driving. And that would disregard the accidents caused by, but not directly involving, those drivers. On highways, accidents are a function of "turbulence" - and the best example of that is the left-lane "K" car driving at a steady 50 mph. Look inside, ten to one the dirver is AARP-ellegeble.

Comment on Smart Money Just Lost Sense

AJ Brant — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:40:37 GMT

As for not putting SSN on D/L,I have to disagree.I have an Indiana Class A CDL and my SSN is required to be on it per state law.On an Indaina Operators license you have the option of having it on it or not. Thanks

Comment on Sounds like everyone "gets" NMVTIS

Thomas — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:00:33 GMT

Great article!
Thomas

Comment on Smart Money Just Lost Sense

Steve Moretti — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:14:41 GMT

Mr. King, on behalf of our organization, we agree with many of your points relative to the recent article written by Kirsten Vala. In point “1.) Your DMV wants you to leave happy.” of your blog, we definitely agree that motor vehicle agencies strive to satisfy their consumers. Specific to your reference regarding our organization, we did not supply Ms. Vala with interviewees for her article. Our CEO had a brief discussion with Ms. Vala where she collected the quote and information regarding our company used in the article.

DMV.ORG – The Unofficial Guide to the DMV, is managed by our organization, Online Guru. Online Guru is an internet web site publisher with a mission to help consumers simplify their lives by providing information and advice through well designed web sites. With nearly 20 employees, freelance relationships with over 25 external researchers/ writers, and relationships with numerous technical support/development teams; we take pride in delivering on our mission. Our goal with DMV.ORG is to provide consumers one centralized destination for motor vehicle information and to provide consumers advice. To that end, we have invested heavily in the development of over 4,000 pages of content/information on our web site. In addition, we maintain thousands of links on our web site to the pages of state motor vehicle agency web sites, so consumers can more easily find the information they are looking for on the relevant state agency web site.

Each state motor vehicle agency (51 including D.C.) maintains different laws, policies, and procedures regarding motor vehicles; and they all maintain unique and different web sites. Thus, consumers get confused and/or have difficulty understanding how to handle certain tasks relative to motor vehicles, find the information they are looking for, etc. Our web site helps these consumers as many of the visitors to our site are traveling from one state to another, are moving state to state, are transacting business between states, are international visitors planning to come visit the US, etc.

Unlike many other web sites that provide DMV and motor vehicle related information online, we clearly disclose that we are not affiliated with any government agency.

But, this past year we have increased our efforts to create relationships directly with state motor vehicle agencies, and will continue to do so in 2008. We welcome the opportunity to work with any state agency; as well as share best practices regarding web site design, usability, and how state agencies can leverage the Internet to allow consumers to conduct tasks online.

Mr. King – Online Guru and DMV.ORG welcome the opportunity to work more closely with your organization to find ways to connect and increase efficiency between consumers and state motor vehicle agencies. I will contact you directly to discuss further.

Regards,
Steve Moretti

SVP - Business Development
Online Guru

Comment on Smart Money Just Lost Sense

Sam — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:35:41 GMT

I completely agree with your analysis on this article above, the article that they wrote at smartmoney.com is very inaccurate and misleading.

DMV.org if you click on that link anyone can tell that the site is out to take you for a buck, everything about the site is money oriented, that alone tells me that we are looking at deep pockets and half-truths, $11.5 million made off that site every year also tells me that.

I find a lot of the advertisers on these types of websites offer very low quality services, with no service, in other words you're wasting your money.

Also most DMV website have greatly improved, I live in California and when you go to dmv.ca.gov the real DMV website is very neatly organized and very easy to find what you need, also they don't try to sell you anything like snake oil or course with no one to teach them.

What they do is they give you accurate information and current information, this is the real problem with sites like DMV.org, I'm sure the advertising end of it is kept up very well, while the information side of it could be very inaccurate, I found that site to be very confusing other than if you want buy something, then it gets really easy to understand.

Myself I have always gone with official websites, I would recommend if you need information on a subject to talk to somebody in a related business to your question, when you talk to people you're more likely to get current information and they may be a steer you in the right direction with less effort on your part.

What I have learned is when someone offers a product and there's no person to back that product, such as a lot of these websites, you the consumer can really get screwed.

They didn't start those websites to give you that information, they started the websites to put their hand on your wallet.

Good luck guys.....