SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 'Guerrilla Gardener' Gets Ousted From Patch Of Land By Spoilsports At DMV Guerrilla Garden Booted From DMV, Moved To Oak Street https://t.co/xw0dPH1xOQ by @LightExposures pic.twitter.com/aKjOCCQVUW— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) July 7, 2016 Calling to mind those Guerrilla Grafters, a self-styled "guerilla
SF News Self-Driving Cars Will Still Need A Human Driver, Say DMV Draft Rules Coming nearly a year after its January 1st, 2014 deadline, the California Department of Motor Vehicle today released those draft rules governing the use and operation of self-driving cars on California roadways. In
SF News Google Discovers DMV Is Slow, Self-Driving Car Regulations Are Almost A Year Late When his son turns 16 in three-and-a-half years, Chris Urmson of Google's driverless car project doesn't want to take him to the DMV for a driver's license. Maybe that's a personal anecdote about
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Majority Of Driver's Licenses Issued This Year Are For Undocumented Immigrants After AB 60 went into effect at the beginning of the year, over half of the driver's licenses issued in California are for undocumented immigrants. According to the DMV, around 397,000 of
SF News Unofficial Concierge Helps You Survive The DMV This Friday "Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies," wrote Honoré de Balzac who was probably thinking of the San Francisco DMV on Fell Street. And yet an optimistic new project asks if there
SF News Google To DMV: We Can Regulate Self-Driving Cars Ourselves, Thanks At a public workshop attended by state workers, lobbyists, safety advocates, and more than 100 car manufacturers, Google counseled the California DMV not to establish a government process for appraising the safety of
SF News DMV Pulls U-Turn, Retracts Requirement For Commercial Plates On Uber/Lyft Cars California DMV Director Jean Shiomoto retracted Vehicle Industry News alert VIN 2015-01 on Friday night, which affected ride hailing operators like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. Specifically, the now defunct alert claimed that "Any
SF News DMV Declares That Uber/Lyft Drivers Need Commercial License Plates "Any passenger vehicle used or maintained for the transportation of persons for hire, compensation, or profit is a commercial vehicle," reads a recent advisory issued by the California DMV with regard to Uber,
SF News San Francisco's Disabled Placard Abuse Epidemic, By The Numbers We all know that abuse of disabled placards is a real issue in San Francisco: this, despite the fact that abusers have seen fines get raised again and again — and some even face
SF News Audi's Self-Driving A7 Hitting S.F. Streets Thanks To New DMV Permit If you happen to pass an Audi on the road, don't panic if there's no one behind the wheel. On Tuesday, the German car company received the first California permit to test self-driving
SF News Mother And Son Disabled-Parking Fraudsters Plead Guilty, Get $4,100 Fine And Community Service A San Francisco mother and son who lied to obtain handicap placards have plead guilty to felony forgery, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office announced today. Guobin Qin, 29, and his mother,
SF News DMV Computer System Down In California Our sister site LAist reports that the computer system at the Department of Motor Vehicles is down today. "Right now a "glitch" has knocked down their computer system state-wide, leading to a blanket
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The DMV This Morning In Western Addition.... Beth Spotswood sent us harrowing images of her standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles this morning in Western Addition. Yuck. Though this is a city chockfull of people who love
SF News Transgender Woman Settles DMV Harassment Suit Amber Yust, the 23-year-old Software Engineer who received a threatening letter from a DMV employee after recording her sex change with the government agency, will recieve a $55,000 settlement the Chronicle reports
Arts & Entertainment California DMV Gets Its Own Reality TV Show While Bad Girls Club forever remains the apex to which all reality TV should strive -- really, Deadliest Catch? Zzz -- the California Department of Motor Vehicles will try to match the drama
SF News Creepy DMV Clerk Warns Transgender Woman of 'Evil Decision' As if going to the DMV wasn't harrowing enough, Amber Yust, a 23-year-old software engineer, had a particularly vile experience when she went to change register her sex denotation at the San Francisco
SF News Today In Absurd Budget Problem Solutions: Electronic Ads on License Plates The State Assembly is considering a measure to begin researching the technology and implementation of electronic license plates statewide, a move that hopes to help close the $19 billion budget gap we're currently
SF News Good Morning, Furlough Friday! Part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to reduce state employees' pay an astounding 14 percent (ouch!), today kicks off July's Furlough Fridays, which will affect 169 Department of Motor Vehicle offices, including branches
misc Tough Times at the DMV With budget cuts, and long lines, apparently this is the easiest way for disgruntled patrons at the Fell Street DMV to get out their frustrations. The colors are very harmonious though.
misc Dave Clark Abandons Tori Campbell at Anchor Desk Sal was especially excited to remind us viewers that today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday and that he saved some random Sal fan from going to the DMV today, which is closed for the
SF News Four Women Settle Touchy Lawsuit Against DMV As if the DMV weren't annoying in and of itself, now you can add sexual molestation to the list of ways that the Department of Motor Vehicles makes your life miserable. (...and what's
misc Registered to Vote? Deadline Tomorrow Those who still need to register to vote in time for the February 5 presidential primaries need to do so by tomorrow, January 22nd. Re-registering is necessary whenever you move, change your name,
