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Digital license plates now available as option for Arizona motorists
Arizona drivers now have another option for their license plates, one that the tech savvy will love - electronic digital plates.
The new plate option is called Rplate Digital License Plates. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation, they are LTE wireless connected devices similar to a tablet. The license plate number is constantly displayed, and the technology allows for added messages such as "invalid," "stolen" and other notifications if needed.
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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:30AM (6 children)
It's not so much tracking a stolen car, as if the car's license plate displays STOLEN in big red letters, the thief isn't going to be able to travel half a dozen blocks without getting cops called on his ass. It's also much easier for cops to identify stolen vehicles, until we get AR goggles that can identify stolen vehicles by license plate recognition in real time.
Of course there are workarounds, but as I understand it, most car theft is opportunistic crime so it's possible that this makes stealing cars much less appealing.
The assumption here is also: police do not have trackers installed in all cars and police do not have trackers installed in the digital license plates either. Presumably the LTE location data would require a warrant in the same way as regular LTE data.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by SomeGuy on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:08AM (5 children)
Driver: "I'd like to report a stolen car."
Operator: "Ok, what is the license plate number?"
Driver: "The license plate number is S-T-O-L-E-N."
Operator: "Shit, we didn't think this through at all, did we?"
(Score: 1, Touché) by fakefuck39 on Sunday February 17 2019, @06:53AM (3 children)
I don't see your point. you conveniently left out step 0. it's the police, already knowing the car is stolen, sending a signal to it's gps-transmitting radio to make the plate stolen. the only one who didn't think this through at all here is you.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:24PM (2 children)
You make the assumption that the system is set up and working as designed - which, experience shows, is often not the case. You also assume "the police" give a flying fuck. Sometimes you will need to involve people who don't have access to this magic high-tech system.
Not that anything about these digiduhl license plates makes the slightest bit of sense, so we could sit here all day finding holes in the alleged use cases.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday February 17 2019, @11:44PM
I bet you could get the cops to care if you hack the plate to flash "DRUGS" in big red letters.
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Monday February 18 2019, @03:27PM
so let me get this straight - you Don't want your license plate to read "stolen" if your car is stolen, because some cops "don't give a flying fuck?" It's not for the cops retard. It's for the robber, who absolutely does not want to drive a car with a plate that says "stolen," and it's for me, who thinks a built-in license plate makes the car look better, and no longer needs to worry about putting a sticker on it every year.
no one cares what you do on your farm tractor. most of the population has demand for this product, as do I, making it a good product.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:03AM
The license plate number is not needed, only the location. The cops will be able to tell which car it is by the license plate obviously. It doesn't even have to be the car the caller saw, the cops may well nab two or three STOLEN cars all at once.
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