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We have this in the UK and my understanding is if a car removes their plates or uses a plate which is invalid it will be flagged up and they will be inviting po
by kypro 4y ago
We have this in the UK and my understanding is if a car removes their plates or uses a plate which is invalid it will be flagged up and they will be inviting police attention.
Although, I think where this comes into play most is that in the UK our police cars are also fitted with the same technology so if a car has a valid plate which doesn't match their vehicle or simply has an fake plate they will be immediately pulled over, so you'd be kinda stupid if you were driving around frequently committing crimes with fake plates on.
- loeg 4y agoThe US has largely been failing to enforce license plate laws since Covid began. Yglesias has written some about the problem here: https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-cant-tolerate-fake-expired-and https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-cant-tolerate-fake-expired-a... You are totally correct that our failure to enforce these laws enables quite a lot of other crime.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoI lived in the UK for 10x the time I've lived in San Francisco, but here in SF I've witnessed many more instances of cars driving with obscured plates or no plates at all.
- 77pt77 4y agoSteve Jobs made a point of legally driving without license plates.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoThat loophole was closed on 1st January 2019, well before I moved to San Francisco. Separately: Unlike many states, California requires front license plates, too.
- 77pt77 4y agoGood to know. The front plate is about 50/50 in the states.
- stefan_ 4y agoIn NYC the cops are pioneers in making their license plates unreadable, at times just straight up bending them.
- hahajk 4y agoI know that California's doesn't match plates to car make/model, at least the toll and red light cameras. Someone faked my friend's license plate on their car and he's been getting all their tickets. Their cars aren't even the same color.
- cjrp 4y agoI don't think the camera system is picking up that the plate doesn't match the car; more if the vehicle has been reported stolen, or doesn't have tax/MOT/insurance.