What the hell question is that anyway? Body type? You mean make, model, year? Sounds made up to me

They probably do this intentionally for shits and giggles

They don't list anything about your vehicle on your driver's license.

If this was for vehicle registration, they would not be taking your picture.

These would be two separate services at different Iocations, at least in my state.

This was a totally real interaction. I was there to see it all myself. Some people might not believe because it sounds implausible that by chance someone that was there that day could be on Lemmy reading this exact scenario. Well rare intersections happen all the time in this crazy world we live on. And I can say with confidence I saw it all because I was the camera!

Having just gone through title and registration on a vehicle, they asked for VIN and that was it. They pulled all the info they needed from that.

Make, model, year, and VIN. The VIN can be used to verify the other three were accurate plus some other stuff if needed in the future.

My DMV just asks the VIN of my vehicle and everything else is extracted from that. Because umm yeah of course it is. If you just renew you don’t even do that much, you just say yep I wanna renew these plates and the vehicle is the same.

Its a bit more hassle if you buy a vehicle privately and have to file the paperwork yourself but like.. very mildly worse.

But I hate cafes... and what if this also happens in Luxembourg?

Hey, I get that your comment is supposed to be a joke, but using that kind of spelling and grammar when the OP really did not signal that was present comes off as a little sus. I understand that lots of people have had experiences at the DMV and that may be true to yours, but I think it's best to not assume that's the way people at the DMV speak in a specific location unless given a reason to.

For three minutes too.

They're handles by physically separate offices here.

Yeah, I was just gonna ask... because it sounded weird and I was trying to figure out why they'd need his photo and details about the car at the same time...

I had to go to the government office to get my car registered as legal to drive

the safety inspection was done at a private mechanic's shop, and they put everything into an online system. I already have my own license plates and the car transferred into my name from a previous government visit (which is required to get an update d physical copy of ownership). I have insurance on the car separately, obviously

and yet I need to go to an office in person so that I can just say "hi please register this vehicle?" even though literally all of the information required to do that already exists in their system or is being entered into their system after being transferred from a paper form (VIN, my name, date, insurance policy). it's nuts. like no part of the process required me to be there whatsoever. they don't look at the car or physical copies of anything but my ID

my country is the frontrunner (estonia)