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Arizona Drivers Can Now Use Digital License Plates

posted by takyon on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the epapers-please dept.

realDonaldTrump wrote in with a story about digital license plates:

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 etherscythe on Sunday February 17 2019, @10:13PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Sunday February 17 2019, @10:13PM (#802630) Journal

    So in addition to being hard to reverse-engineer, our vehicles will inevitably have to have cosmetic descriptors documented by licensed service technicians to be street legal? Because that's the only way you'll have the database usefully up to date. Not that the criminals won't find a Jiffy Lube patsy to bribe, the way they already do for state inspections.

    Burning Man is going to start getting a lot less interesting. Land of the free, indeed - all mired in red tape, and free only in theory.

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