Roughly 17 percent of tickets were purchased on the SMART smartphone app, and 6 percent from discounted "eco-passes" available to college students, military veterans and large employers.
The electric scooter company Lime announced that it has taken some of its scooters off streets in Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe due to concerns that their batteries could catch fire.
Waymo, the robotic car company created by Google, is poised to attempt a major technological leap in California, where its vehicles will hit the roads in five cities without a human on hand to take control in emergencies.
Federal authorities are experimenting with looser regulations on police use of drones, and it's bearing good results so far in a pilot program in one California city.
The Department of Motor Vehicles, which has been automatically registering customers to vote since the spring, will now complete a manual review of a sample of those registrations each day before sharing them with the Secretary of State's Office to be added to the voter rolls.
The dispute centered on an emerging area of contention in criminal courts, where the use of sophisticated forensic tools that rely on computer algorithms is becoming more common.
Uber and Lyft cars contribute heavily to San Francisco’s traffic slowdowns, especially in the downtown and at night, according to a report being released on Tuesday, which both companies said used a flawed and incomplete approach. The report from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority crunched data from November-December 2010 and the same two months in 2016 to get snapshots of how traffic changed over those six years.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles says it will implement new quality control on its voter registration process after last week's revelation that as many as 1,500 non-citizens were wrongly registered to vote.
Passengers riding Bay Area Rapid Transit trains may be better protected in the event of an earthquake after the agency on Monday rolled out a newly upgraded earthquake alert system.
An internal audit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles released Monday shows that about 1,500 customers may have been improperly registered to vote.
A statewide coalition is calling on Bay Area cities and counties to protect the privacy of immigrants by boycotting tech companies that provide data sharing services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
State lawmakers learned Thursday that the embattled agency could soon face a dramatic increase in customers coming in for federally mandated Real ID cards. Since the program's implementation in January, the DMV has issued 1.5 million Real ID cards. But the agency expects that more than 15 times that many — an estimated 23.5 million — have yet to be issued by Oct.1, 2020.
First it was the Real ID, which spawned soul-sucking lines out the door at DMV offices up and down the Golden State. Now comes a warning that certain unscrupulous online operators have set up websites that charge customers bogus fees to to complete the electronic driver license and ID card application.
As of this week, Sacramento is one of only a handful of cities worldwide to offer 5G residential wireless broadband service from a major internet provider.
The Port of San Diego has confirmed that it is investigating a highly sophisticated cybersecurity threat to its technology systems that is affecting the public agency's ability to process park permits and records requests and perform other business services. The San Diego Harbor Police Department, the law enforcement arm of the Port, is also affected by the attack and is said to be using alternative technology systems.
In the digital shadow of Silicon Valley, California officials still submit their records to the feds justifying billions in Medicaid spending the old-fashioned way: on paper. Stacks and stacks of it.
From broken bones and teeth to punctured lungs and lacerations requiring plastic surgery — injuries from riding dockless electric scooters have, according to medical professionals, landed people in emergency rooms all over California.
Sacramento is one of four cities in the U.S. to receive early access to the at-home Internet service, along with los Angeles, Houston and Indianapolis, according to a Verizon press release.
Los Angeles County officials have launched a program that combines various technologies to help find people with autism, Alzheimer’s disease or dementia who may wander off and go missing. The program, called L.A. Found, will make use of bracelets that can be tracked through radio frequency by sheriff’s deputies.
Sonoma County is preparing to replace its aging voting system next year, a highly anticipated technological upgrade expected to make ballot counting faster and more efficient while still keeping the entire process secure from would-be hackers. Officials will roll out the new technology for use in a smaller local election as early as March, following the Board of Supervisors’ vote last month to spend at least $2 million on the upgrade.
Officials say the errors were limited to 23,000 of the 1.4 million voter registration files sent to election offices between late April, when California's new automated "motor-voter" system went into effect, and early August. Californians who were affected will soon receive notifications in the mail instructing them to check their voter registration status.
State lawmakers advanced an ambitious proposal Thursday to prevent broadband providers from hindering or manipulating access to the Internet, bringing the state closer to enacting the strongest net neutrality protections in the country.
The emergency office would be required to develop training for officials that would include how to operate technology that can force emergency warnings onto cellphones.
The measure sent to Gov. Jerry Brown would require the California Highway Patrol to report on how many motorists stopped for impaired driving are allegedly under the influence of marijuana.
Thousands of Sonoma County residents and visitors will receive emergency alerts next month during tests of the county's warning system, nearly one year after county officials weathered widespread criticism for inadequately warning the public about the October firestorm. A national test of the technology is planned later in September.
Santa Clara County firefighters were dangerously hobbled by poor Internet service while they were helping battle the monstrous Mendocino Complex fire in July because Verizon drastically slowed down the speed of its wireless data during the fire fight, the county's fire chief contends in a federal court filing. Verizon has acknowledged the problem and vowed to fix it.
The Nevada Policy Research Institute has sued CalPERS, accusing the pension system of violating state law by withholding information about the type of benefits retirees receive. Such data, the suit alleges, is necessary to safeguard pension systems from waste, fraud and abuse.
