MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) — California is exploring the future of our driver’s licenses from our wallets to our phones.
Digitizing your California driver’s license is now an option for iPhone and Android users.
It’s all part of the DMV’s broader mobile driver’s license pilot program that was launched last year.
On Tuesday, the DMV hosted an event called Community Hackathon inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
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Steve Gordon, Director of the DMV, said this daylong event is about building community with budding technology.
“The paper driver’s license in one form or another has been around for about 120 years so this is the first major change to being purely digital,” Gordon said.
Different private sector businesses and startups had the opportunity to present to a panel of judges …