Because its the card you take to have them use a "camera" on you. Those rebels!

My dude, what do you think we use to take photos?

Before they used digital cameras, they took your picture and laminated to the card if I remember correctly.

This is the magic of the DMV.

If that's true, that would explain it perfectly. That would have been a while ago, which explains why I couldn't find my answer on Google. Thanks for your time.

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Sketch artists?

Yo, that would be amazing. I’m gonna ask about that option when I renew. 🤣

Don’t lose the camera card or it’s a pain in the ass to get another.

Source: my license expired and I lost it a week before traveling out of state to get married and needed a photo ID

I appreciate the warning. I'm actually working to get some replacements for some important documents after I stupidly got them destroyed. Guarantee you I'm putting all my shit in a strongbox this go around.

If I recall correctly, the camera card had all your identification info on it, and it was literally inserted into the camera, which had two lenses - one focused on you, and another on the camera card itself. Your finished DL would then be a combined single image of the two side-by-side photos - one of you and one of your information. That's why it's called camera card.

This is it.

Yep. And now I feel REALLY old tho.

I know, right?

Yes, and I am almost older than the picture ID. Many of my friends had a DL before the picture ID which made faking a DL easier. The early generation wasn't all that difficult to forge as well but required a picture and an ID (because there was no way to just print out a form easily, no printers that were accessible by mortals) it was just easier for a couple of years to use an older paper DL.

Aye.