Here in NZ we had our 'lifetime' drivers licenses cancelled and had to apply for new ones, which are 'smart' cards with a magnetic strip and photograph. The application entailed a technical eye test.
It is now illegal to drive whilst not carrying them.
They are reckoned to be a 'de-facto' identity card.

I think they cost the equivalent of UKP14 and the issuing office was the Automobile Association, acting on behalf of, and with the authority of, the government.
It didn't and doesn't bother me, I do very little that is illegal, but there was much resistance from the civil libertarians.