Android customers collaborating in a pilot program can now add their California driver’s licenses to Google Wallet. The “cellular driver’s license” program is presently open to 1.5 million Californians, and beforehand solely allowed digital IDs within the state’s “CA DMV Wallet” app for iOS and Android.
“It’s by no means been simpler to maintain a digital driver’s license and identification card in California,” mentioned Governor Gavin Newsom in a press release yesterday, “The state continues to work to supply comfort for these opting into the cellular driver’s license program, now with the choice of utilizing Google Wallet.”
California introduced earlier this month that it’ll additionally enable Apple Wallet digital IDs quickly. Those within the pilot will nonetheless have to hold their bodily IDs, and out of doors of “choose retail areas and TSA airports,” legislation enforcement, state authorities companies, and companies should not but accepting digital IDs, in keeping with the California DMV’s website.
