Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.
Out here? No way, you probably see at least five of those a day.
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#23Approaching 4 years of driving with no plates on the same car here in California. Just leave the paper dealer plate(the one with the dealership name/logo on it) on the car. Cops wont ever pull you over for lack of plates, even if youre missing the front plate as well, as I am.
You must not live in SF then. After four fix-it tickets for no front plate, I caved.
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#24Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.
Anonymity. Silver SL's, even AMGs, aren't exactly uncommon in the area.
Plus, you don't have to worry about red light cameras.
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#25Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.
The advantage is that you can't prove it was his car. Even if every other Mercedes AMG is registered, there's no way to prove that his is the only one without a plate.
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#26I guess he'd have a good answer for the "Tell us about a time you hacked a (non-computer) system to your advantage" question on the YC application.
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#27Approaching 4 years of driving with no plates on the same car here in California. Just leave the paper dealer plate(the one with the dealership name/logo on it) on the car. Cops wont ever pull you over for lack of plates, even if youre missing the front plate as well, as I am.
I did this as well. Even got pulled over for speeding once and was issued a warning. CHP chuckled when he saw that I was well beyond the limit for not having plates affixed to the car, and asked me to get them on the car.
New cars are so common in CA that if the car is a late model and looks reasonably good, you'll never have a problem. Parked on the street, they can't see the dates on the registration that's stuck to the windshield. Just make sure your registration is paid and your insurance is up to date.
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#28Now explain why he liked to use handicap spots and find the DMV loophole for that. Or how he seeded Apple by selling something that would have landed him in federal prison today.
Your first claim is false.
http://www.switched.com/2008/08/26/steve-jobs-is-alive-and-p... [2008]
Note that he might have had or qualified for a handicapped sticker, given how sick the cancer made him, though no one appears to know for sure. And I could definitely see him not wanting to put the sticker on his car if he had one.
It appears to be the same car, though, right down to the missing license plate.
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#29Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.
My best bet is he just didn't want to have to deal with the DMV...
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#30So basically, Steve got a new Mercedes more often than I get new shoes. Now that's what I expect out of a multibillionaire. Good to see he at least kept himself in new-car smell on a regular basis, and certainly kept a local dealer quite happy.
Oh, chill out. The article says the car was leased. He probably had to pay some kind of premium to keep his leases down to six months at a time, but it's not like he was buying a new $120k car twice a year.
I'm not upset about it or concerned with the financial arrangements, I'm just kind of amazed by the concept.
On top of the self-expression of never having license plates, he got one of the finest cars in the world delivered to his driveway, brand new, twice a year. I'm guessing not only did he never have car trouble, he never needed to take it in for maintenance either.
That's hard to beat as far as perks of being a really rich guy go. Not my personal taste, but I can't deny its appeal.