This has been achieved through extensive development, strict quality control, and a stringent pre-production testingrequirement of 400 drives passing 500 hours of intensive tests with zero errors.
According to the IRS, the new testingrequirement would have applied to only about 350, 000 of those who registered for 2012 IDs, since lawyers, CPAs and Enrolled Agents (who have already passed a more rigorous IRS test), as well as tax preparers who are supervised by lawyers, CPAs and EAs, are exempt from the test.