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Plates should be standardized. Bumper stickers and other things can be used for personalization.
Says who, you?
I wrote the words, so yes.
Oh, well you’re nobody. They don’t need to be standardized and will remain as they are lol.
The American freedom!
To choose the license plate...
The day is saved
Not the guy you replied to, but plates have a purpose that are not necessarily compatible with Art and personalization. Not defending a broken society, just pointing it out.
They work perfectly fine. I'd argue these custom ones are easier to read and remember.
Honestly there's no issues if you're not a flock camera
If the same combination is issued multiple times then no, they don't work as intended.
The issue here wasn't that the license plate was too colorful, it was that the missing national standardisation allows for over a thousand cars with the same plate.
Which is why they don't do that. 1 combination per state
So theoretically you can have the same combo 50 times, but it would be on 50 different state plates which are labeled as such.
You've made up a fake scenario that does not occur. There are not thousands of cars with the same plate.
It's not the same combination used multiple times it's a similar combination from different states. Can you describe what the actual issue is here if you're not a Flock camera? How often have you personally confused plates from two different vehicles?
In this case it was Flock cameras not reading the entire plate and omitting two numbers from it. If you're really that concerned about plates getting mixed up, you should also be demanding that no two plates share similar numbers even when omitting some of the numbers from the sequence.
Their purpose is perfectly compatible with art and personalization.