Adam Rosenberg recently visited the District's Department of Motor Vehicles website to change his address -- he had recently moved and needed to update his vehicle registration. He was impressed with the upgrades that the DMV had made to its website over the last year -- even though the verification of his new address which the DMV approved, a Word document that anyone could have slapped together, was hardly foolproof. But Rosenberg wasn't out to dupe anyone, so he let it slide and chalked it up to the cost of doing things online as opposed to waiting in the often interminable lines at a service center. more ›

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Via the Post's Get There blog, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has put in place a number of new regulations starting today. The fees to renew a D.C. driver's license or identification card has gone up from $39 to $44. That's not too big of a hike, and the good news is that those licenses will now be valid for eight years, instead of only five. That works out to $5.50 per year versus $7.80 per year before, so in a real way, it actually costs less now. more ›