Digital License Plates?

[Analog Kid]

I'm wondering what the brain trust of FCBO thinks about this - good? bad?

I myself am on the fence...I think it's inevitable but maybe not for me.

Digital license plates that cost whopping $499 now an option for Arizona drivers

 

[ImpJay]

I think that the current metal plates are more reliable.

 

[azblackhemi]

Another case of doing something just because you can. People want the latest and greatest technology even if it serves no real advantage. So what if it can put an Amber Alert on your plate. That just means when the guy behind you is trying to read it he rear ends you because he's reading and not noticing you stopped.

 

[jct]

Another source of revenue with digital ads

 

[3C's & a D?]

"The license plate hadn't been updated in over 125 years". Why is that? James Bond doesn't need the plate flip mod any longer. First guys to buy will be the "must haves" and shady I.T. guys looking to hack it.

 

[Big_John]

I think it's kind of cool. The price point is too high for me to even consider it and I don't see it working well after some winter salt baths. They have a hard enough time getting the plastic coating (used instead of paint) to stick to license plates here.

 

[3C's & a D?]

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I was thinking that too, but forgot to bring it up, not initially, but of course it will come to that. I was also thinking about the extra strain on the cell grid, and the fact that cell phone companies will be making even more bank, on what was for 125 years, accomplished with a thin plate of steel ( rubber in some states during WW2 ).

 

[300rag]

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Now if I, as the owner, could get the ad revenue....nah, nevermind, that's an unnecessary distraction. This just seems like a way to track all those cars that don't have built-in tracking from the factory.

 

[300rag]

I was thinking that too, but forgot to bring it up, not initially, but of course it will come to that. I was also thinking about the extra strain on the cell grid, and the fact that cell phone companies will be making even more bank, on what was for 125 years, accomplished with a thin plate of steel ( rubber in some states during WW2 ).

Who needs these to speed up times at the registry. Do it by mail, or all the private registries like we can here.

 

[300rag]

For those areas that have mandated front plates, will the state still have to produce and supply them, or will this technology allow for the elimination of them?

 

[Imperialist67]

Can't think of what REAL purpose it would serve. Drivers are already distracted enough, we don't need to turn license plates into some kind of screen. Hopefully municipalities with speed cameras (like the district of Columbia) won't get too interested in these and force them on us..........

 

[Analog Kid]

Hopefully municipalities with speed cameras (like the district of Columbia) won't get too interested in these and force them on us..........

Good point....I'm wondering if they would be able to track your speed from your license plate and automatically send you a ticket.

 

[GJS]

I want to pi** on this idea ... but I just spent close to 500 just so I could put 1967 Blue/White CT plates on my Monaco so I'm really in no position.

 

[Carmine]

Good point....I'm wondering if they would be able to track your speed from your license plate and automatically send you a ticket.

Done. But the plates would probably help for the old-timey carbon unit-driven cars.

In the words of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (SEMA), the vast umbrella organization representing automotive industry parts and equipment suppliers, OBD III is “A program to minimize the delay between detection of an emissions malfunction by the OBD-II system and repair of the vehicle.”

And how will that be accomplished? Rather than merely store trouble codes, OBDII will immediately transmit those trouble codes to The Man – who will then proceed to first warn you (via letter or e-mail) to have the car repaired, stepping up to more aggressive enforcement if you fail to do so in the form of “citations… court and/or DMV penalty at next registration.”

It would also be possible to send the info directly to any nearby cop, who would then pull you over immediately – saving the government some time while making some more money off motorists.

This is not sci-fi. It’s impending reality. All the technical issues have been solved. Most new cars already come with GPS systems capable of receiving and sending data. It would be a simple matter to salt the roads with scanners capable of ID’ing every car that passes by, automatically establishing a communications link with your car’s computer. This would occur continuously and constantly, too – not just every once-in-a-while. OBD III as envisioned would literally make it possible to constantly monitor and record every vehicle so equipped, from the moment it left the driveway to the moment it returned at night.

 

[Carmine]

I want to pi** on this idea ... but I just spent close to 500 just so I could put 1967 Blue/White CT plates on my Monaco so I'm really in no position.

Holt sh*t. Collector plates are $35 in MI and they don't expire.

Of course our idiot new governor just signed us up with the rest of the individual states who promise to follow all the Paris Climate crap, so the plates will probably go away soon.

 

[BLIMP]

No freaking way, I enjoy driving older cars without the technology to be tracked.

 

[Imperialist67]

I want to pi** on this idea ... but I just spent close to 500 just so I could put 1967 Blue/White CT plates on my Monaco so I'm really in no position.

what kind of plate is it? I hope it's REALLY nice after all that.....

 

[GJS]

Holt sh*t. Collector plates are $35 in MI and they don't expire.

Of course our idiot new governor just signed us up with the rest of the individual states who promise to follow all the Paris Climate crap, so the plates will probably go away soon.

Collector plates aren't terrible here either in and of themselves. It's all the crap you need to do to display year correct plates ... and the taxes and all the other Connecticut garbage.

 

[Rapidtrans777]

would literally make it possib
le to constantly monitor and record every vehicle so equipped, from the moment it left the driveway to the moment it returned at night.

Bingo! And all points in between 24/7

 

[3C's & a D?]

Done. But the plates would probably help for the old-timey carbon unit-driven cars.

In the words of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (SEMA), the vast umbrella organization representing automotive industry parts and equipment suppliers, OBD III is “A program to minimize the delay between detection of an emissions malfunction by the OBD-II system and repair of the vehicle.”

And how will that be accomplished? Rather than merely store trouble codes, OBDII will immediately transmit those trouble codes to The Man – who will then proceed to first warn you (via letter or e-mail) to have the car repaired, stepping up to more aggressive enforcement if you fail to do so in the form of “citations… court and/or DMV penalty at next registration.”

It would also be possible to send the info directly to any nearby cop, who would then pull you over immediately – saving the government some time while making some more money off motorists.

This is not sci-fi. It’s impending reality. All the technical issues have been solved. Most new cars already come with GPS systems capable of receiving and sending data. It would be a simple matter to salt the roads with scanners capable of ID’ing every car that passes by, automatically establishing a communications link with your car’s computer. This would occur continuously and constantly, too – not just every once-in-a-while. OBD III as envisioned would literally make it possible to constantly monitor and record every vehicle so equipped, from the moment it left the driveway to the moment it returned at night.

I certainly hope it's not an "impending reality". I don't blame them for trying, where there's money to be made... Hopefully most people won't buy into it and it won't catch on. If enough people do, and the system is supported, it will only be a matter of time before they are mandatory.