Northwest Territories wins best plate every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of...
Second place seems to be missing from the site: https://duischoolnv.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nevada-Au...
All of the vehicle license plates available in America
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Re: All of the vehicle license plates available in America
#72Finally 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 Vehic…
Also, 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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Re: All of the vehicle license plates available in America
#73> 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.
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#74A 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…
I wish we had something like this in the UK.
More than 6 points on your licence and you have to drive a yellow car with a 1l engine or smaller.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
My opinion is that DUI should revoke your license. I know it is common in Europe where first offenders loose their license for a few months, and then it gets progressively longer. The USA has IMO a terrible system which punishes DUI drivers through the justice system regardless of if they caused any harm. This leaves people with pretty shitty lives and prevents people from calling the police on DUI drivers. They can…
Revoking their license does not stop them from driving.
It stops by far most people from driving. The ones who are undeterred and keep on driving without a license are then fair game for the criminal justice system.
Even if this minority gets away with continue driving without a license and wont get punished, you still save many lives by taking the vast majority of drunk drivers off the road. That alone is worth it.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing prevents DMV and police having interconnected database. Which would allow automatically communicating vehicles removed from use or with lapsed MOT.
That works fine if you live in a tiny country. But in the United States there are tens of thousands of law enforcement agencies authorized to write tickets. Some of them are massive organizations like state highway patrols. Others are towns of 200 people, or even individual schools that don't have the time, money, or infrastructure to integrate with a national system.
Sounds like perfect market for some SaaS. Pull relevant information from everywhere and automate showing failures.
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#77A 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 ev…
Go 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!
Re: All of the vehicle license plates available in America
#78Finally 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 Vehic…
Also, 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.
Personally, 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.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ontario Canada finally did away with them. Lots of people decry the loss of government revenue, but I’m happy to see some red tape/bureaucracy cut down for the consumer. I thought governments only did that for big business. Would have made more sense to just increase gas tax by 0.1 cents/litre. Tho you’re still supposed to register for free online every year or two, which I’m sure 90% of the population is going to fo…
>decry the loss of government revenue you got rid of the registration stickers and the fees? in alberta they got rid of the stickers, but kept the annual fees. and the private contractors who collect those fees.
> you got rid of the registration stickers and the fees?
Correct.
(Though I always wondered why they just didn’t make the insurance companies send the stickers, or eu style where you put your insurance slip in a little window packet)
Re: All of the vehicle license plates available in America
#80> 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,…
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