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The insane practice was allowing "O" and "0" to be used in license plate numbers in the first place. Once you do that, you're stuck dealing with the fallout of
by AlexandrB 5mo ago
The insane practice was allowing "O" and "0" to be used in license plate numbers in the first place. Once you do that, you're stuck dealing with the fallout of trying to distinguish confusing glyphs at distance on a moving vehicle. Many places omit letters that can be confused like this for good reason - e.g. Ontario plates can't have the letters G, I, O, Q, and U.
- harwoodr 5mo agoMy Ontario green plate starts with GV...
- philipwhiuk 5mo agoI imagine it's unambiguous because it's a specific length so it can ONLY be a G.
- bloak 5mo agoIn the font used for British number plates O and 0 are identical and 1 and I are identical. This link might work for an example: https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font?text=OO01+III https://www.dafont.com/uk-number-plate.font?text=OO01+III Software that handles number plates needs to take account of this. Not all of it does but the glyphs being identical makes it quite clear where the responsibility lies.
- philipwhiuk 5mo agoIsn't the British solution to only allow certain combinations so this is always unambiguous? e.g. a prior car we had was FE51 WOC - the O can't be a 0 because of the format requirements. Similarly the 1 can't be an I.