• GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Digital license plates are a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist -

    But it is a money maker for the manufacturer at a subscription price of $29.99 / month

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    6 days ago

    Imagine if this plate display could be driven by a low-end smartphone app running software that keeps GPS track of the vehicle;

    • When the vehicle is parked at home; it displays a decoy/vanity/decorative plate.
    • When the vehicle is on the road; at reasonable speeds it displays the “Default” Legal plate number…unless you signal it not to.
    • When the vehicle is speeding or near a known ALPR camera; it shifts the plate number to a randomly numbered decoy plate number.
    • When the vehicle is parked somewhere else; it chooses a random plate number and shifts that number every 1-2 hours at random odd intervals.
    • When you toggle a certain setting on your personal device; it just sticks to a random plate number or current plate for an hour or two. (So you can get out of sight before it shifts again, in case you’re being watched.)
    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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      7 days ago

      I’ve never heard of them so I googled it and these fucking things are $500 per plate to start from some private company and are listed as a “theft deterrent.” Apparently they don’t realize that it takes 20 seconds and a screwdriver to defeat these.

      What a stupid idea and I’m pissed that yet another private company gets to take over a government function and charge high fees (after just returning from a trip where a bunch of vultures were circling the security lines trying to get people to sign up for Clear+, another private company, at $199/yr in order to bypass the long TSA checkpoint).

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Why would people buy into digital license plates? The article said they have GSP tracking. Do we really want to be tracked even more? I guess this will just be forced on us. We need to resist it!

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    It’s insane to me that any government would approve “digital licence plates”. Clowns making decisions “because we can”, not “because we should”. Result: a circus.

    • comador @lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      When they first started this idea in California I made a 6-pack of beer bet with fellow IT programmers on how long it would take to hack these lol.

      I lost because it happened later than I expected and now the winner gets 4 x 6-packs of micro beers of their choosing.