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All of the vehicle license plates available in America
- andyjohnson0 3y agoAh so this is the plates not the numbers. Just for moment I was kind of confused... I've always been surprised that there are so many licence plate number formats in use across the US. And some of the plate designs are pretty elaborate: I wonder to what extent they affect readability at a distance?
- mistrial9 3y agomanufacturers of red-light cameras do not wonder, they have quietly made fortunes in the past 20 years.. more recently "mandatory license plate scanners at major bridges and toll roads" it seems. edit
- mikhailfranco 3y agoMost US states do not have red-light cameras, and some that did, have withdrawn them. For example, see the Redflex bribery case, and other legal challenges. YMMV in other countries: some are packed full of red-light and speed cameras, with phone-use detection expanding rapidly. Most toll systems use different tech (e.g RFID), reinforced by plate readers to identify violators. However, plate readers will always be a part of national security, and certain local law enforcement tactics.
- Symbiote 3y agoPlenty of toll roads recognize number plates in Europe, but it may well be that it's easier to implement this system when there are typically only two or three plate designs per country, and they're generally all pretty much the same — black letters on a white or yellow background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_vehicle_registration_plate#List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_vehicle_registration_...
- mistrial9 3y agorapidly multiplying red-light cameras at every major city intersection here in California -- see San Diego County technology plan and others. Zero discussion of withdrawing any of them, quite the opposite -- "no public debate evident." Roughly one-in-ten residents of the USA live in California. Secondly, a trend of physical restriction for entry, exit and travel of whole portions of counties, via declaration of disaster from Sacramento.
- OJFord 3y agoIt probably is largely familiarity, but I find them all a lot harder to read than European numberplates, at any distance. The font (family), colouring, spacing, etc. Sometimes when they're in a film or something and seem significant (the shot hovers on it, or zooms in on it or something) I've had to pause or go back to read it.
- mikhailfranco 3y agoTraffic cameras usually have to recalibrate for every single one (e.g. for AI, retrain with new designs in the training set). In the future, I might expect designs (and fonts) to converge towards AI legibility, but these plates raise money for states, so that will provide a dampening effect. I know at least one other country that has recently initiated a program to redesign plates for AI legibility.
- jefftk 3y ago> I might expect designs (and fonts) to converge towards AI legibility Why would you expect that? AI is getting more capable faster than our legislative systems are likely to address something like this.
- dboreham 3y agoUS plates aren't expected to be readable (like they are in Europe).
- Scoundreller 3y agoA relative had an immigrant colleague that was intrigued by different US license plates. One day their manager had one that had a new colour scheme that he never saw before. The intrigue overtook him and in a big group he had to ask how he got this new beautiful plate. And how could he get one themself? Turns out the state required you to “wear” this license plate after your third DUI or something. Oops. Edit: looks like two states have these “whiskey plates” or “party plates”: https://www.tmj4.com/news/project-drive-sober/ohio-gets-tough-on-drunk-drivers-requires-special-license-plates https://www.tmj4.com/news/project-drive-sober/ohio-gets-toug...
- namdnay 3y agothat's so ... american. the vehicle version of public mugshots or perpwalk
- spiderice 3y agoI’m just wondering why they’re allowed to drive at all after 3 DUIs.
- Ekaros 3y agoI would expect them to be in prison for 25 years or something after 3rd one. You know like 3 strikes...
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- blamazon 3y agoIn Mississippi, one of those two aforementioned states, it's perfectly legal to drink and drive (with an open container in your hand!) as long as you stay below 0.08 BAC. (Nit: it's legal at a state level but municipalities and counties are allowed to dictate more rules on drunk driving - most don't, but YMMV)
- blamazon 3y agoNot sure if it's still this way but it used to be that in Georgia if you got the "save wild dolphins" plate, the first two letters of your plate would be 'EE' which is hilarious. (It's supposed to sound like the noise dolphins make)
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoThe state tries to avoid plate number collisions by using prefixes on specialty plates but pretty much every in-state university president has plate number 1 with their school's design. The governor and leaders of each chamber of the legislature also get their own plate design with assigned number 1.
- silisili 3y agoThis is correct, and in this case, the E E is for EarthEcho.
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- Ekaros 3y agoAs coming from country with actually working IT, I always wondered about those year and month tags... I get my yearly tax directly as bill to my bank...
- fps 3y agoIt's to notify police to stop the car if they see it on the road. The US has a lot of infrequently used or unused cars that gradually transition to a sedentary life in a garage or yard. It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven. If you drive a car with a lapsed registration or safety inspection sticker, police will notice, stop you, and issue a ticket.
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- Ekaros 3y agoNothing prevents DMV and police having interconnected database. Which would allow automatically communicating vehicles removed from use or with lapsed MOT.
- WkndTriathlete 3y agoThe tag is to indicate that the vehicle has paid the appropriate taxes for using the roads. If the tax on the vehicle is not paid then it should not be used on the roads. Without the tag there is no way to enforce that without the police having to manually enter the plate number for every vehicle they see. Hence the tag: if the police see a vehicle without an up-to-date tag applied it is not legally allowed to use the roads since the owner hasn't paid to keep the roads maintained from the wear incurred by the vehicle while driving on them. There is an argument to be made that the police could simply use a system that reads license plates up and checks the information automatically, but there are so many 4th amendment abuses/workarounds that the police already use it's hard to imagine much public support for such a system.
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- whalesalad 3y agoNorthwest Territories wins best plate every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northwest_Territories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
- blamazon 3y ago> Awarded inaugural "Plate of the Year" for best new licence plate of 1970 by the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association.
- reaperducer 3y agoSecond place seems to be missing from the site: https://duischoolnv.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nevada-Autonomous-driving-license-plate.jpg https://duischoolnv.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nevada-Au...
- tremon 3y agoOuch, that hurts. Did that designer fail to grok the Moebius strip?
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y agoPerhaps it would be hard to paint that with different colors on each side ...
- travisjungroth 3y agoI don’t think it was meant to be a Moebius strip. Looks like a twisted ring made into an infinity symbol.
- placesalt 3y agoIf you see a car with those plates in 'the south' (ie where 90+% of the country's population lives), you can presume that a car has physically travelled thousands of kilometres across a vast, nearly unpopulated wilderness to get to where you are. People who live in remote areas seem like hardy people; seeing that someone drove that far proves that they're a hardy person.* *Of course, the effect is greatly reduced if you see a tourist sample plate that someone bought, with all zeros. That just means the person's been there. Far more impressive if the car's been there.
- lapcat 3y agoI searched for Wisconsin in the table and found that Maryland and Pennsylvania have University of Wisconsin alumni plates, which I found odd.
- js2 3y agoLarge universities have large alumni associations with local chapters throughout the US. In states where custom plates are easy to get, those associates will often ensure their universities have their own plate designs. It looks like the University of Florida has plates in at least six different states besides its home state: FL, VA, TX, GA, NC, MD, SC.
- madcaptenor 3y agoThat at least makes sense geographically!
- lapcat 3y agoWell, Maryland is clearly just out of control with the plates: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/content/images/size/w1600/2023/08/Artboard-1@2x-1.png https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/content/images/size/w160... By the way, the majority of out-of-staters at UW are from neighboring Minnesota (with tuition reciprocity) and Illinois (the FIBs).
- madcaptenor 3y agoI've never heard of FIBs but I just Googled it and see that I correctly guessed what it means.
- lapcat 3y ago;-)
- Kon-Peki 3y agoOne of the top results in a web search (apparently FIP and FIB are interchangeable): > the Chicago Reader observed in a 1988 article titled “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan.” “One local newspaper estimates that Chicago-area residents, all of them nonvoters, make up more than half the area’s taxpayers and pay more than 60 percent of its local tax load. Those inconsiderate jerks should stay home (or go somewhere else). The locals really want to experience the full cost of their town services. [1] https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/how-illinios-became-fips/ https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/how-illinios-became-fip...
- beardyw 3y agoDo they do NPR, number plate recognition, in the US. There is a lot of it in the UK, in fact I think average speed checks are based on them. I would have thought it would be hard with all that decoration.
- blamazon 3y agoWe call it ALPR - Automatic License Plate Recognition and it is both controversial and omnipresent. Average speed checks are not a thing here, ALPR is used primarily for toll collection ("pay by plate") and secondarily for law enforcement and asset reposession. (If you drive with a suspended license or don't pay a car loan, a mobile ALPR may bust you) Most plates are still legible to these systems despite the decorations - the remainder are verified by hand for applications such as toll processing. People do stuff like obscuring the plate with a bike rack, a magnetic leaf, tinted license plate cover, etc, but it's a risky game to tempt the toll collector like that.
- arethuza 3y agoThere are average speed cameras on the A9 here in Scotland - which I think have been a good thing given the reduction in insane driving I've seen on what was already a very dangerous road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9_road_(Scotland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9_road_(Scotland)
- blamazon 3y agoI personally am a huge fan of average speed cameras and think we should adopt them but that is a hugely unpopular opinion here in the states... it would be career suicide for a politician to campaign on that, quite possibly even for the deadliest roads with the most insane drivers. (For me, instantly thinking of the 'Robert Moses style' New York state parkways [1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkways_in_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkways_in_New_York
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- manual89 3y agoToo bad the plate cost data wasn't presented. Was wondering which was the most expensive. In Oregon the cost varies pretty wildly, and some don't have a renewal surcharge.
- Tangurena2 3y agoGenerally, if the plate is for a special-interest group, part of the registration fee is a "donation" to that group. In Kentucky, part of the registration/renewal fee is an "ad valorum" tax (based on the assessed value of the vehicle). The state constitution requires taxes to be based on assessed value. This value drops every year until it hits the minimum assessable value of $200 for (land) vehicles and $100 for motor boats.
- bsagdiyev 3y agoI forget it now, but I believe we pay an extra flat $30/yr for our "NC Aquariums" plate. The price is the same regardless of which optional design you get and the fee goes to the cause on the plate.
- callumprentice 3y agoA few years ago, I set out to take a snapshot of a plate from every state. My rules were that I had to take it personally, it had to be a regular set of numbers and letters for that state - no vanities - and I had to be able to clearly see the whole thing. I’m down to 3 left to get - North Dakota, West Virginia and Delaware. It’s been more than a year since I caught the last one (South Dakota) so I’m not sure I’ll ever be done.
- f154hfds 3y agoGo to the parking lot for Niagara Falls on the US side (Goat Island I think it's called?). You should see all the plates except for Alaska and Hawaii on an average day I think as well as a decent number of Canadian provinces. We were there about a month ago looking at plates and ran into another family looking for plates while we were there!
- callumprentice 3y agoThank you but that's a bit far from me in SoCal.. I do see a lot of out of state plates in shopping malls here for some reason so one day, I plan to explore a couple.
- achrono 3y agoBeen to the Canadian side literally dozens of times, holidays and weekdays, but by far it's Ontario, New York or New Jersey repping most of 'em. A few Texas here and there, but never something like Alabama. Always wondered why that's so.
- dboreham 3y agoYellowstone is the place to do this. You'll even see some European plates (on motorcycles).
- callumprentice 3y agoInteresting - thank you. Near the top of my bucket list too.
- bradleyjg 3y agoCurrently a good 5% of license plates I see parked on the streets of nyc are out of state paper licenses. Somehow I don’t think they are all newly purchased vehicles.
- reaperducer 3y agoA few times in my life, I've lived near U.S. military bases. That gives you a chance to see all kinds of license plates from all around the world as people who live off-base are transferred in and out. Once when I lived in the desert, I had neighbors with plates from Hawaii and Guam. One neighbor had a German plate. Not on the front like some chav adornment. But on the back as his legal plate.
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- limitedfrom 3y agoHere's a good read about NYC's temporary license plate black market: https://www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-part-1-the-dealers https://www.streetsblogprojects.org/ghost-tags-part-1-the-de...
- bradleyjg 3y agoI think they should civil forfeiture the cars.
- hnbear 3y agoFinally a reason for a custom plate: The explosion of full color images on special plates has also created some concerns for law enforcement’s use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs), which automatically scan the plates of cars as they drive down the road or through tolls. Many police cars are equipped with ALPRs that scoop up all of the plates that drive by. A report by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators warned that high contrast backgrounds in these special plates can cause readability issues for ALPRs.
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- cratermoon 3y agoAlso, with hundreds of legal variations, how can the police keep track of them all? Counterfeiting a plate wouldn't require a very exacting match, just close enough to fly under the radar.
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- hnbear 3y agoPersonally, it’s all the other plate readers I care about too. I’m more a privacy nut than trying to evade police detection. I’d imagine, as with so much, cops just outsource it to a data broker type service. They feed the camera footage to a third party API that spits back matched data. Either plate info or human info. My data doesn’t need to go into so many tracking DBs. No way so many small agencies can do anything themselves.
- Reubachi 3y agoMay I ask why your plate information being out there concerns you? If it's 3rd party "plate readers" tracking your travel, your vehicle is already sending telemetry data outbound regardless, after you give the manufacturer 40 grand and you don't even get to pick which fancy picture goes on your car.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoSo Illinois has St Louis Cardinals MLB plates, presumably for downstate residents that relate to STL more than Chicago… I guess in addition to being a question of state pride it’s probably also a matter of public safety that they don’t have Green Bay Packers NFL plates for Lake and McHenry residents, though!
- madcaptenor 3y agoThe other out-of-state MLB plates, if I've searched properly, all make similar geographic sense: - Red Sox in CT and RI - Mets, Yankees, Phillies in NJ (you can get Mets and Yankees plates in New York but you can't get Phillies plates in Pennsylvania) - Nationals in MD and VA Also you can get Brooklyn Dodgers plates in New York but you can't get Los Angeles Dodgers plates in California.
- nunez 3y ago> Yes, license plates are still made by cheap prison labor in most states. 80% of all license plates issued in the U.S. today were made by state prisoners, with only 12 states opting out of the practice. According to a 2022 ACLU report on prison labor in the U.S., many states offer no pay at all to prisoners, while the average hourly wage across the country was between 13 and 52 cents per hour So slavery's not dead, I guess.
- jdpedrie 3y ago“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
- standardUser 3y agoAmerica literally has an exception for slavery.
- yossarian1408 3y agoPeople who commit crimes are not entitled to the same rights as everybody else nor ought they to be
- travisjungroth 3y agoPro-slavery take. Don’t see those around here so often. I’m anti-slavery, myself. Even when the government decides the person did something wrong, not really in favor of it. Sometimes the government gets a bit fast and loose on what a crime is and who has committed them.
- mitchdoogle 3y agoSo if you want free labor, you just create harsh penalties for minor crimes.
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- mr-marbo 3y agoDidn't see mention of Delaware's (in)famous black plates: > Delaware is the only state that allows private manufacture of plates for legal registration purposes, and the only state to have retained the famed porcelain plates in the modern era. > Delaware ... remains the only state with non-standard size plates in current use. https://www.dmv.de.gov/About/history/index.shtml https://www.dmv.de.gov/About/history/index.shtml Peek into the insanity: https://www.dhptags.com/ https://www.dhptags.com/ https://www.lowdigittags.com/29.html https://www.lowdigittags.com/29.html https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/10/28/delaware-low-digit-license-plates-are-again-up-for-grabs-what-to-know/69597147007/ https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/10/28/d... https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2019/06/10/delaware-illegal-black-and-white-license-plates-all-around/1410464001/ https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2019/06/10/delaware-i...
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoI work in automotive. It's annoying dealing with US to Europe plates. I'm sure there is someone in the design dept that really wanted to deal with Delware plates and now just drinks.
- clintonb 3y agohttps://freakonomics.com/podcast/delaware-license-plates/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/delaware-license-plates/
- sokoloff 3y agoNC has a weird plate law. > Any motor vehicle of the age of 35 years or more from the date of manufacture may bear the license plates of the year of manufacture instead of the current registration plates, if the current registration plates are maintained within the vehicle and produced upon the request of any person. This means that you are issued regular plates and must carry them in the car, but can display a year of manufacture plate as the only plate on the car which is not registered with the state at all. Good luck getting a parking ticket or toll-by-plate.
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- dnissley 3y agoInteresting how many states offer out of state university plates. E.g. New York and Tennessee both offer Indiana University plates
- madcaptenor 3y agoAnd in that case, only New York and Tennessee.
- dnissley 3y agoPennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Deleware offer Purdue plates -- and that's just looking up the universities I know well from growing up in Indiana
- Julesman 3y agoI saw a e-ink license place last week in LA. Anyone know what's up with that? Seems kind of hackable.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoProbably a reviver plate (https://reviver.com https://reviver.com) They're semicommon as a dealer add on to jack up car prices. IIRC the hardwired version is on the CAN bus and both versions let you set the slogan text from a list of preapproved phrases in the app over Bluetooth. It would be fun to reverse engineer, but not fun enough that I want to pay $400/year for it.
- wpsimon3 3y agoI always assumed they could be used by the dealer to "mark" a car that was delinquent on its lease/finance payments.
- rented_mule 3y agoOn a long road trip last year, we logged all the plates we noticed. That included all 50 states plus Guam, Puerto Rico, federal government, and diplomatic plates. The article missed those not issued by states. What we didn't expect, and what the article also misses, is that we saw several distinct plate designs issued by Native Americans. We saw them in multiple states, but more in Oklahoma than anywhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Native_American_tribes_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
- zbirkenbuel 3y agoJust did a very similar road trip with a similar experience. Saw several Caddo plates around Craters of the Moon and an overland vehicle with plates from Brazil. Never did spot a District of Columbia one though and it appears there are no "standard" plates for DC?
- nickt 3y agoThe geekiest book I own (according to my wife) is “Registration Plates of the World” by Neil Parker [1] - there’s an older version on the IA [2]. Respect to the collectors club - the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association [3]. Projects like this and the book are great at seeing a tiny slice of another part of the country/world which you may never see. Nice job! [1] https://www.alpca.org/halloffame/neilparker/ https://www.alpca.org/halloffame/neilparker/ [2] https://archive.org/details/registrationplat0000neil https://archive.org/details/registrationplat0000neil [3] https://www.alpca.org/ https://www.alpca.org/
- acheron 3y agoObvious when you think about it but this is just current plates available for order, and lots of states (all?) let you keep old plates around as long as you want and they don't fall apart or something. Virginia used to have a few different "400th anniversary" plates in the mid 00s (Jamestown was founded in 1607), which I still see around regularly. I used to still see the even older standard 6 character plates around too -- those are mostly gone by now but every once in awhile one goes by.
- jeron 3y agoI have the California Historic Vehicle plate on my NA Miata and I love the way it looks on the car
- aimor 3y agoDon't forget the Diplomatic plates https://diplomacy.state.gov/items/diplomatic-license-plates/ https://diplomacy.state.gov/items/diplomatic-license-plates/ https://i.etsystatic.com/12654735/r/il/dd7fb3/1754142363/il_fullxfull.1754142363_dxls.jpg https://i.etsystatic.com/12654735/r/il/dd7fb3/1754142363/il_... Or Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana, and the Virgin Islands Or the Native American Nations
- omoikane 3y agoWikipedia has those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Puerto_Rico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Guam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_American_Samoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
- amatecha 3y agoOohh, a lot of states have really cool plates for amateur radio operators! Check out Alabama's[0] -- radio symbol and even morse code "dits" and "dahs" -- seems they forgot to change the morse code to something generic since they say "AL2C" at the top, which is Alabama Bicentennial Amateur Radio Club's callsign, and ARL50 at the bottom, which I just found out apparently means "greetings from amateur radio"[1]) [0] https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/200221_AmateurRadio2020_tag_page.jpg https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL_Numbered_Radiogram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL_Numbered_Radiogram
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoWhat I found interesting is that both Louisiana and California put out strikingly similar license plates in 1993. Both had red script at the top on a white background with dark blue lettering.
- dhosek 3y agoI recently saw a car with an antique license plate on it. It was a model that was popular among my high school classmates. Time is a bitch, man.
- jonasdegendt 3y agoEvery generation has their own hooptie. That one budget car of which millions were made, which trickled down from parents or grandparents, and became the defining automobile for the 18 year olds of that generation. Eventually they become more and more rare until the sighting of one takes you right back to your teenage years, and you instantly smell that particular French econobox cloth interior smell again. Time is a bitch huh.
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- elAhmo 3y agoIf you asked a Mexican or Colombian do they identify as an American, what answer would you get?
- mikestew 3y agoI'll become worried about the issue when my Mexican, Canadian, and Brazilian friends stop referring to people in the U. S. as "Americans".
- hotdogscout 3y agoThe US is named America. The United States of America. Just as Brazil is named República Federativa do Brasil.
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- Zanni 3y agoI'm very much in favor of local governments raising additional funds by selling cosmetic upgrades (rather than outsourcing enforcement of speed limits to privately owned traffic cameras, for instance).
- woodruffw 3y agoThey need a new section for paper license plates[1]. [1]: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2022/07/05/nyc-cracking-down-on-illegal-paper-license-plates https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2022/0...
- danzk 3y agoI thought it was amusing that California has a Horseless Carriage license plate. Doesn't that just mean it's a car?
- Tangurena2 3y ago"Horseless Carriage" is generally the name for license plates for vehicles over 50 years old. "Historic Vehicle" is generally the name for vehicles 25-50 years old. Neither plate is intended for driving on the road. If a cop wants to be a jerk about it, your car is getting towed. I used to work for a state motor vehicle agency.
- fsckboy 3y ago> There were 50 possible plates to see (plus D.C.) 50 states, plus DC, plus Canadian provinces. Je me souviens. Tu ne te souviens pas?
- c-smile 3y agoHmmm... if America I would expect to see plates from, say, Bolivia too ...
- duxup 3y agoI’m slowly getting a different plate in Minnesota each year. Our Critical Habitat plates are ready popular and pretty. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/plates/index.html https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/plates/index.html
- mysterydip 3y agoLots of great plates out there. My favorite so far that I've seen is the NC watermelon plate.
- wpsimon3 3y agoTangential story time on how I "accidentally" got out of numerous parking tickets that would have prevented me from graduating university. I went to school in a state that required both rear and front license plates. My car, however, was registered in my home state...one that only required a rear license plate. So, I affixed a vanity plate to the front of my Jeep. Our University also had some requirement that you pay all parking tickets in order to be eligible to walk at graduation. Well I found out pretty quickly that the parking authority mainly only checked the front license plate when writing parking tickets. And as it turns out, I was fortunate enough to receive three (3) parking tickets my senior year, ALL ticketed against the front vanity plate (two for exceeding time limits, one for parking in reserved parking that ironically my actual plate granted me access to). They never recorded my actual, rear license plate. Never recorded my VIN. Just the front vanity plate. Some 10+ years later, to this day, if anyone in North Carolina has a legitimate Colorado license plate with the tag "VAIL" on it...well, my bad...hope you aren't trying to graduate! EDIT: turns out, NC does NOT require front plates...so maybe the parking authority people were just cutting me slack. Or lazy. Probably lazy. Either way, I appreciate it!
- lom 3y agoMy favorite one that I’ve seen is the Montana Glacier NP one.
- zirgs 3y agoIf there are so many valid licence plate designs - it's easier to make fake ones. An ordinary cop is unlikely to tell the difference.