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Or Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana, and the Virgin Islands
Or the Native American Nations
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Large 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.
A quick Google search suggests that there are 760 000 living University of Indians alumni, 640 000 living University of Michigan alumni, around 500 000 living University of Wisconsin alumni, 450 000 living University of Florida alumni, 350 000 living University of Georgia alumni, and 170 000 living Georgia Tech alumni. I think that is all the schools people have mentioned so far. It does seem reasonable that most of…
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...
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Wait, is it not possible to get banned from driving in the USA? For comparison the drink driving penalties are here: https://www.gov.uk/drink-driving-penalties
But you have to get caught first. USA is bigger on pulling vehicles over for ??? reasons than most other places. I’m figuring in UK if you get a DUI, it’s because you were driving allll over the place or got into a 3am collision.
In my country it's also common to get caught after being stopped for speeding or car malfunction (like missing headlight), after a minor crash, by driving in a suspicious way, or just during a random check (that police is allowed to do). In total, around 450 drivers out of 1000 are tested for drunk-driving every year. It's one of the higher numbers in EU, so drunk drivers here are also (hopefully) likely to be caught.
And the US DUI limit is insane - 0.08% BAC. In my country it's 0.02% BAC and if you get caught you lose a driving license for at least 6 months (with progressively more severe consequences for higher violations, up to a prison sentence, lifetime driving ban and losing your car permanently).
Didn'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 Peek into the insanity: https://www.dhptags…
Finally 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.
Although fun fact - in California you can legally get a wrap of your license plate instead of having to physically affix one
Don't forget the Diplomatic plates https://diplomacy.state.gov/items/diplomatic-license-plates/ 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
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I saw a e-ink license place last week in LA. Anyone know what's up with that? Seems kind of hackable.
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.
