Source: David Lazarus, LA Times ( Free Registration )

When it comes to online traffic schools, you'd figure a strong regulator is needed to oversee an industry some say is rife with cheating, with stay-at-home students Googling test answers or having others take courses in their place. In Los Angeles, that regulator is . . . the county Housing Authority. And equally unsuitable overseers can be found throughout California thanks to a legislative quirk authorizing the state Department of Motor Vehicles to regulate nearly 400 brick-and-mortar traffic schools -- but not their online counterparts.

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