The long statewide nightmare has ended. After months of irritating technical glitches, confusing options and maddeningly irrelevant test questions, most California drivers 70 and older who apply ...

If you do not have a California-issued driver’s license, you must apply for a learner’s permit before taking your behind-the-wheel driving test as required by state law, according to the ...

Previously, all drivers had to take the test upon their license expiration after turning 70. This requirement, while not a law, had been a standard policy, according to DMV Director Steve Gordon.

Sadaf Samim, left, 18, waits to take her driver’s permit test with her mother Sajia Ahmad, center, and her sister Sahar Samim, right, 21, at the Broadway DMV in Sacramento on Monday, June 27, 2022.

Sadaf Samim, left, 18, waits to take her driver’s permit test with her mother Sajia Ahmad, center, and her sister Sahar Samim, right, 21, at the Broadway DMV in Sacramento on Monday, June 27, 2022.

If you do not have a California-issued driver’s license, you must apply for a learner’s permit before taking your behind-the-wheel driving test as required by state law, according to the ...

Sadaf Samim, left, 18, waits to take her driver’s permit test with her mother Sajia Ahmad, center, and her sister Sahar Samim, right, 21, at the Broadway DMV in Sacramento on Monday, June 27, 2022.

If you do not have a California-issued driver’s license, you must apply for a learner’s permit before taking your behind-the-wheel driving test as required by state law, according to the ...