When I lived in California, I always thought it was bizarre that cars were allowed on the road without having to display at least a temporary license plate. In

When I lived in California, I always thought it was bizarre that cars were allowed on the road without having to display at least a temporary license plate. In the other 49 states, new cars leave the lot with a temporary but full-sized cardboard or paper license plate to display in the back. This novel idea doesn't seem to have occured to the State of California, where new cars are effectively exempt from traffic laws for 6 months.