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Seems weird to call it a decoder. There's no correlation between VIN and plate other than a plate is assigned to a VIN when it is registered. It's not like the
by hk1337 3y ago
Seems weird to call it a decoder. There's no correlation between VIN and plate other than a plate is assigned to a VIN when it is registered. It's not like the plate number is generated based on the value of the VIN.
- dharmab 3y ago"VIN Decoder" is an auto industry term for software that takes a VIN and outputs human-readable information about the car. Historically they printed information encoded into the VIN, and over time database lookups were added. The name is now anachronistic.
- hk1337 3y agoFair enough. I suppose I can see it from the VIN side as "decoding" it.
- AutoAPI 3y agoThe plate is matched with a VIN using DMV records, and then we decode the VIN to show Make, Model, Year, etc