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Oakland DMV Office Will Be Closed Four to Five Months After Vandalism and Copper Wire Theft

It’s a terrible time to close a DMV office for five months with the new state-issued ID law taking effect in about three weeks, but that’s what’s happening at the Oakland Coliseum DMV office, as the site is reeling and flooded after copper wire theft and vandalism.

California DMV Lets Antisemitic Vanity License Plate Slip, and It Was For a Cybertruck

Just imagine the douche who bought a Tesla Cybertruck and then decided to put a license plate on it trivializing violence.

Fell Street DMV Site to Become 372 Affordable Housing Units

The 1960-built Department of Motor Vehicles office and its parking lot at the tip of the Panhandle in San Francisco will be redeveloped as affordable housing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.

Digital, Smartphone Driver’s Licenses are Coming to California

Allegedly “in the coming weeks,” you’ll be able to upload your California driver’s license and present it digitally in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, that is, if you consider getting your ID out of your wallet to be some terribly time-consuming task.

California DMV Steps Into Autonomous Taxi Debate, Tells Cruise to Halve Its Fleet In SF

After a series of concerning incidents involving Cruise autonomous vehicles, the California Department of Motor Vehicles issued an order late Friday asking Cruise to reduce its fleet of AVs in San Francisco.

DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site

The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.

California DMV Now Letting You Take Written Renewal Exams Online

In a gesture toward joining the 21st Century and reducing the amount of time you have to spend at a physical DMV office, the California DMV is now going to let you take written exams online.

California DMV Claims Walk-In Wait Times Are Now Half What They Were A Year Ago

Ahead of the rush for Real IDs that's about to start, the notoriously unloved DMV says wait times for those without appointments are down 48 percent over last year.

Unlicensed Drivers Behind California Shutdown Of Ford-Owned Chariot, Which Resumes Service Today

After jitney service Chariot abruptly shut down its San Francisco service last week, speculation ran rampant on the cause of the closure. But now we know the reason: Multiple drivers with the company

Self-Driving Cars Could Hit California Roads By June

The California Department of Motor Vehicles announced new regulations that could see self-driving cars take the road as soon as next June, but critics of the regulations worry that the safety requirements still

Self-Driving Car And Bicyclist Were Involved In Collision Last Month

The incident sounds relatively minor, but we have reports today, via mandatory DMV reporting, of a collision between a self-driving car and a bicyclist on the streets of San Francisco in May which

Self-Driving Car Tests Without Human Backup Drivers One Step Closer After Tense Meeting

The California DMV stands to further ease its regulations on autonomous vehicles at the urging of automakers, Reuters reports following a heated public hearing in Sacramento Tuesday. Representatives from the Association for Global

Yes, Most Disabled Placards From The CA DMV Were Probably Issued On Bogus Pretenses

The California State Auditor has taken on the cause of those disabled placards issued by the DMV, the validity of which many a TV news magazine and local news broadcast have questioned over

Newly Proposed CA DMV Rules Would Let Self-Driving Cars Hit The Roads Without Humans

Get out of the way, people: The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its updated proposed regulations for autonomous vehicles "post-testing deployment" on Friday, and they relax a number of rules and restrictions

Uber Will Quit Greyballing And Has Self-Driving Permits And Is Very Good Now, Okay?

Hope everyone is ready to download Uber again, because these folks are back on track! For starters, after the $70-billion valued ride-hailing company was called out by a report in the New York

Oh, So NOW Uber Wants DMV Permits For Self-Driving Car Tests In CA

Two months after deploying self-driving cars to pick up customers in San Francisco with disregard that bordered on contempt for DMV permits, the company is abruptly hitting reverse. The San Jose Mercury News

Starting Sunday, You Could Get A Ticket For Holding A Cellphone While Driving

A new California law takes effect on January 1 that prohibits all use of a handheld cellphone while driving, including hitting the skip button on a playlist, looking at a map app, texting,

Uber Finally Convinced By DMV To Yank Self-Driving Cars Off SF Streets

A week after boldly defying California officials and arguing that they had every right to test their self-driving vehicles with paying customers inside, Uber has relented and pulled its self-driving cars off the

Uber Blames Its Drivers As More Reports Of Self-Driving Cars Running Red Lights Surface

Uber's San Francisco self-driving car launch had a rocky first day. First, the California DMV told the company that, despite its protestations to the contrary, it still needed to acquire permits to operate

State Regulators Tell Uber It Must Immediately Stop Self-Driving Car Program

Uber's self-driving car program, launched this morning in San Francisco, is experiencing a bit of whiplash. According to the Associated Press, California state regulators just announced that Uber must cease picking up passengers

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Spelling Of 'DMV' Stumps Bay Area Drivers

How do you spell "DMV"? Like so many Jeopardy questions in post-Who Wants to Be a Millionaire America, the answer is in the question! Yet when asked, several Bay Area residents who are

California DMV Rejects License Plate FURRIES As 'Sexual' Term

Yiff, everybody! Wait, did I use that right? According to the meme dictionary website Know Your Meme, "Yiff" is a term among furries — a subculture/fandom of people who claim identities as cuddly,

'Major Computer Outage' Hits DMV Offices Statewide

Thinking about getting your driver's license renewed today? You might want to reschedule, even if you have one of those coveted appointments. ABC 7 reports that the Department of Motor Vehicles computer system

Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Driver With Admittedly Poor Vision

If your vision were so bad that you had to cross your fingers in hopes of not hitting pedestrians, would you still drive? No, right? And yet that's the exact situation discovered by

Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Drivers Abusing Disabled-Parking Placards

Professional scold Stanley Roberts was back at it again this week, this time around directing his camera and reprobation toward those abusing the system of disabled-parking placards that actual disabled individuals depend on