When we shipped our cars to our kids at USCal, we registered the car in their names and they had to go to DMV to get it registered there. We did get them AAA so they could go there for the DMV instead of waiting in the endless line at the DMV. Since they had older cars it was good to have AAA with extended towing for parents’ peace of mind anyway.
D said the police frequently ticketed student cars parking on the street that weren’t switched to CA registration, including many of her friends. I’m not sure whether they were successful fighting the tickets, just knew we didn’t want tickets and hassles.
Agree that your kid needs to calendar and move car to avoid getting ticketed for street cleaning RE street parking. It helped D to make an appt on her calendar to move car so she’d remember.