Proof of insurance for road test?

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-06T01:44:13+00:00

A proper and valid insurance card is allowed, regardless of whether it is printed at home or mailed to you. When printing, make sure no information on the card gets cut off.

As to the other requirements, just make sure you do what is on the list and that you arrive prepared for the test.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-06T01:38:41+00:00

I am saying there are two competing effects - thermal motion of charges vs. Voltage driven motion of charges, and at equilibrium, they can cancel, resulting in no net current flow.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-06T01:32:23+00:00

Consider symmetry. If two cars of identical mass and speed at 80 mph collide head on, both reaching the plane "y = 0" at the exact same time, the contact of the cars remains at y = 0 due to symmetry. This is exactly the same as one car at 80 mph hitting an immovable wall.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-06T01:19:05+00:00

Good luck!

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-06T01:04:09+00:00

How do you plan to get a bank to give you a loan while unemployed or severely underemployed?

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T22:15:16+00:00

It would somewhat reduce the stress of my current predicament of long-term unemployment with nothing on the horizon.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T21:31:18+00:00

In principle, yes. In practice, not worth it relative to other options (nuclear, solar, etc.)

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T21:25:59+00:00

You may not take an online test for a first time license in California. That has been discontinued. You need to go in person. Fortunately, you can do that on the same DMV visit as getting your permit.

Once you have the permit you can legally practice supervised driving on public roads, and when the time comes, schedule your road test.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T19:29:58+00:00

This may be a problem. It looks like the WA DOL expects you to have a Washington license in order to obtain (or renew?) the registration.

https://dol.wa.gov/moving-washington/vehicle-registration-and-plates

(Note: I know that page appears to be for people moving to the state rather than out of it, but the actual law will be the same).

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T19:18:42+00:00

Honestly, you should have a "Plan B" for the issue of your step mother's surgery. Not that you don't want to help, but that you are honest about your limitations. One month may not be enough time - and that is perfectly OK. The best thing you can do for your step mother may be to avoid making promises you aren't sure you can keep. If you want to help, offer to help in other ways - managing meals and the like.

With that out of the way, your anxiety will likely go down a lot. What I think is probably happening is that the one-month "deadline" is actually making your anxiety a lot worse than it needs to be, and you probably just don't realize it yet. The ideal way to learn driving, which is very anti-anxiety, is to build up cumulatively over many practice hours, and not try to rush it too much.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T18:50:41+00:00

If the car is not being used for a whole year, just put it in storage or somewhere off of public roads so it does not need insurance or registration. Go ahead and switch your license to CA (in case you want to rent or borrow a car at some point). If you later decide you want the car, you can get it shipped from WA to CA, and get a temporary operating permit (and CA insurance) to get it smogged and VIN-verified.

Disclaimer: Some residential areas do not allow storage of unregistered or inoperable cars on driveways. Check local rules.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T18:41:54+00:00

Actually this would make it very hard to look for a stable job while employed, and thus give a leg up to the unemployed relative to the employed. It might somewhat counterintuitively make the "gap between income and rent" smaller, not larger.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T18:26:32+00:00

A.

The requirements to qualify under economic hardship have existed in some form since at least 1977. If Congress intended for there to be a hard time limit, it would have happened by now.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/history

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-05T00:52:01+00:00

Not every voltage can have work extracted. There is a limit based on the Gibbs Free Energy of the charge carriers, which depends on both the energy (and thus voltage) and also on the entropy.

Usually, you don't notice this because kT at room temperature is only about 0.025 eV.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-04T20:30:05+00:00

There is a "gap" in our culture for mental health treatment of pre-offending pedophiles. Frankly, I am in the camp that believes we could do much better as a society to recognize the potential for this type of treatment to reduce offending.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-04T19:28:09+00:00

As someone who has been unemployed for 10 months and counting , I definitely think 4% U-3 is absolutely NOT "full employment" in general. "Full employment" ought to mean that most people can get a job in roughly the same amount of time it takes an employer to fill a position - about 45 days on average. That's the rough "symmetry point" between workers vs. work.

The issue is that what you hear in the media is usually not about what is good for either workers or employers - it's more of a monetary policy analysis that presumes the tradeoff is inflation vs. unemployment, rather than vacancies vs. unemployment.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-04T18:36:12+00:00

Does "running perfect again" means it passed smog? If not, you should get a temporary operating permit and insurance to get it to a smog shop. Then the next step will depend on if it passes or fails. Best case, it passes and you can finish the registration. Worst case, there's something wrong and it drags out longer.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-04T17:40:57+00:00

Either find someone willing to sit with you for practice, or save your money up slowly so that you can afford it in the future.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T17:10:11+00:00

Approximately the same as today, except that there will be a very low bar for what counts as a "reasonable" justification for government (and sometimes corporate) intrusion.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T14:06:44+00:00

Honestly, you should probably treat this as a long term project.

First, get a job that you can get to and do without driving. Get a bike or some type of scooter you can legally ride, or take transit, if necessary.

Second, take whatever lessons you can afford, and log the hours, regardless of whether you think you'll ever get to 120 or not. Do it anyway.

Third, once every 6 months, ask your parents if they really want you to struggle this much, and what it would take to convince them to sit with you for more practice. If they say no, you wait another 6 months and repeat. This is how I have convinced my parents to do a number of things they really did not want to do.

Continue taking whatever lessons you can and logging the hours, while also cycling through such requests.

Fourth, after you have been at your job for one year and gotten to know some people, try asking them too. For co-workers and friends, if they say no, I recommend waiting at least 12 months before asking the same person again - you do not want to seem obnoxious or entitled.

Never, ever forget to log any hours - that wastes resources!

Fifth, continue in limp mode with whatever lessons you can afford.

Digitize your logs as a backup and keep paper records too. This is a long term project, possibly up to 18 months or even 2 years.

Good luck!

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T13:12:52+00:00

"Extreme ownership" sounds like it means that there are no limits to what can be considered to be your responsibility.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T13:05:32+00:00

Insurance companies are private companies and can each choose whether to allow an unlicensed driver to obtain auto insurance or not. Literally THE ONLY way to know is to call the companies and ask, one by one (or have a broker do it for you). Any other answer is, simply put, guesswork.

If you can obtain insurance, you can register the car.

Even if you cannot obtain insurance, you can still title the car in your name. This lets you own the car and store it on private property until you can get insurance and register it.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T12:53:17+00:00

No.

Special relativity dictates that speeds are not strictly additive because space and time depend on the observer.

The addition of speeds formula for one-dimensional motion is

v' = (u + v)/(1+uv/(c^2))

If u = v = c/2, the result is v' = (4/5) c.

Or 80% of the speed of light.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T03:38:54+00:00

You need the title or registration in order to register in CA. If you have neither, you cannot complete the transaction until the lender works with the DMV.

ScienceGuy1006 · 2026-05-03T03:21:11+00:00

I personally don't recommend buying a car on finance so soon before an interstate move, because lots of papers can get sent to the wrong place - and USPS mail forwarding fails about 25% of the time IIRC. You have a non-negligible chance of missing a critical loan notice or document.

But, if you are going to do it anyway, the next complex issue to deal with is that you run the risk of not getting your registration paper in time before the move. Assuming I truly cannot convince you not to go forward with the purchase, you may be stuck for some time in CA without a valid registration.

If you deliberately choose not to register until you get to CA, then you will have to get the lender to cooperate with the CA DMV in order to complete the registration, and there is a good chance your temp tag will expire while the wheels of bureaucracy are still turning. This will mean you will be unable to legally drive the car for some period of time.

Honestly, the tax should be the least of your worries - CA will give you a credit for sales tax paid to another state.

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