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California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers (www.thedrive.com)

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Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But once you've got cars on the road in both the first and second combination (or first and third, or whatever) then you can't easily tell if it's 111-III or III-111 or II1-11I.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in australia we had alpha and numeric divided and then a few years ago we switched to just alphanumeric everywhere… the font used is made to be machine readable - an I and a 1 look very different; it’s a non-issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, using a smart font is a good solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my state of my country the plates are colour coded. So like for most of the 90s it was green, now they're blue or something? I dunno, if you knew what to look for you could figure out what generational combination its from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is also a clever idea!