For people who just saw the title or have seen joke tweets on Twitter, it's a bit misleading. The article does a good job of outlining what's really happening.

For people who just saw the title or have seen joke tweets on Twitter, it's a bit misleading. The article does a good job of outlining what's really happening. License plates have always been customizable to a certain extent (like, adding a sports team), the emojis aren't officially part of the license plate numbers. They're just an image, which happens to be an emoji, that can be placed next to the license number.