Vehicle License Plates
Comments debate the necessity, privacy implications, identification role, and potential alternatives or removal of vehicle license plates, often comparing them to other identifiers like domains or driver's licenses.
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how is this different from a the privacy afforded by a US license plate on a car?
See the license plate section of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121116!
We need license plates, else people can't identify cars in the case of incidents.
this problem is simple to solve, remove license plates. They're pointless anyway.
You don't own a license plate. It's the state's property.
I guess you need to do a 'whois' on whatever domain is printed on the license plates you are about to receive, before you accept them?
I would presume this would prevent a lot of tickets as you don’t have a normal license plate.
License plate numbers are old fashioned. Can't we get something more secure? E.g. plate numbers that change every hour would be a good start. I don't like to drive around with a giant cookie strapped to my car.
What do you mean by 'difference the license plate numbers'?
The problem is the existence of license plates.