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DMV Kiosks Now Available in Los Angeles Grocery Stores

California DMV Now kiosks, which are self-service terminals with touchscreens that motorists can use to complete license registration and renewal processes, are now available in about a dozen grocery stores in the Los Angeles area, from Palmdale to Santa Clarita.

California DMV Now kiosks, which are self-service terminals with touchscreens that motorists can use to complete license registration and renewal processes, are now available in about a dozen grocery stores in the Los Angeles area, from Palmdale to Santa Clarita.

Intellectual Technology Inc., the company installing these kiosks, has also announced plans to expand the locations to include about 40 total retail stores by the end of 2017. The kiosks seek to provide better and more convenient access to DMV services to Californians, who can use the kiosks whenever the stores where they are located are open for business, even if their hours include nights, weekends and holidays — a significant departure from the traditional Monday through Friday schedule during which motorists have been able to visit DMV offices.

The idea is that motorists can take care of their DMV business during routine shopping trips, completing renewals in as few as two minutes. With these kiosks, a process that used to involve long waits for service may now amount to just scanning a bar code on a renewal notice or registration card, followed by swiping a credit card for payment and then walking away with a new printed registration or license plate sticker.

The kiosks are unable to complete all DMV-related tasks, such as showing proof of insurance, paying registration reinstatement fees, processing a change of address and a few others. Even so, the California DMV kiosks have processed 6 million registration renewals to date.

This story originally appeared on Government Technology as part of a larger piece.

Zack Quaintance is the assistant news editor for Government Technology magazine. His background includes writing for daily newspapers across the country and developing content for a software company in Austin, Texas.