These Are Your Worst Experiences At The DMV Everyone has a bad DMV story or two, right? Earlier this week we asked our readers to tell us about a particularly bad trip to the department of motor vehicles. While a lot of what happens there is important to how cars and drivers stay legal, register to vote, or pay for important services, it’s still an unpleasant… Read more…

What Was Your Worst DMV Experience? The Department of Motor Vehicles is a grey and tan liminal space where dreams go to die. Take a number, wait in line, an irritated overworked government employee tells you that you forgot some obscure piece of paper, you’ll have to come back some other time, but now it’s illegal to drive your car. Nothing happens… Read more…

California DMV suspends Cruise’s robotaxi permit ‘effective immediately’ Image: GettyThe California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended Cruise’s robotaxi permit “effective immediately.” The General Motors-backed company had recently been involved in several safety incidents, most recently a hit-and-run by another driver that resulted in a pedestrian trapped under one of Cruise’s driverless vehicles. Among the rea…

Vermont Is No Longer America’s DMV What happened to you, Vermont? You used to be cool. You were America’s DMV, handling vehicle registrations nationwide without regard for pesky things like “titles” or “really any sufficient proof of ownership, honestly.” You let folks ignore inspections, pay reasonable fees, and slap extremely cool green plates on… Read more…

Nevada DMV Rejects Plate That Hates On Californians It’s been pretty well established that you can’t have hateful, divisive or crazy things on a vehicle’s license plate. Why people continue to think that a government agency like the DMV would let them get away with things like that still doesn’t make sense. Yet another person in Nevada has learned this lesson, as… Read more…