are these people delusional, or deliberately difficult in an effort to avoid taxes?

https://patch.com/california/healdsburg/amp/35032506/sovereign-citizen-driver-says-he-is-exempt-from-ca-laws-claims-duress-when-cited

California has officially concluded production on its 46-year-old standard license plate sequence, and is now moving from the 1AAA000 format to a reversed 000AAA0 setup.

Inmates at Folsom State Prison finished stamping the final 9ZZZ999 plate, but over 110,000 plates using the previous sequence remain stored across local DMV and auto club offices awaiting distribution.

www.foxla.com/news/california-retires-46-year-license-plate-format-debuts-mirrored-sequence.amp

I wonder... since when can anyone personalize the message at the bottom of the license plate?

 

I don't remember the last time I saw anyone stupid enough to drive without a registration sticker on a new license plate

well done license plate

I saw this in traffic the other day, and find it very unusual for someone to cover all the country and region info... this one is from Mexico, and they have a decal that sticks to the inside of the back window, that's the same as the plate.

What the possible POINT of covering the words? They are duplicated on the window sticker... but Flock cameras don't get those, is my guess

How to get out of fixing your vehicle, Without that tag (and the owner's sense of humor) this would just be your average clunker truck. (thank you Ed!)

so... you can easily create an “adversarial noise” pattern that will make a license plate difficult for AI to recognize while still appearing normal to people.

and Florida instantly made it illegal to prevent Flock cameras from reading your license plate 

Florida law explicitly prohibits covering, obscuring, or interfering with the legibility, visibility, or detectability of a license plate number or validation sticker, as well as interfering with the ability to record the plate details via electronic recording devices or cameras

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1382711590704662&set=a.191465499829283

What if you have your bumper made of license plates?

Or get a wrap for your whole car, that looks like a 1000 license plates?

Adversarial AI Patterns: An emerging concept involves 3D-printing license plate frames embedded with adversarial machine learning patterns (such as open-source projects like Scarecrow). These patterns are designed to trick the YOLO or AI object detection models into failing to recognize the object as a license plate at all.

the Maryland Vehicle Authority is cracking down on out-of-state vehicle registration, primarily targeting tens of thousands of vehicles previously registered in Maryland then switched to Virginia after losing their license in Maryland... because these drivers don't pay camera citations!

The MVA said the data showed that 28,003 vehicles previously registered in Maryland were switched to Virginia. More than 50% of those vehicles would not be eligible to register in Maryland because of indicators on their records, and nearly all were out of compliance with Virginia safety inspections.

 Baltimore City officials said drivers with Virginia tags often do not pay traffic citations. About 63% of camera citations issued to vehicles with Virginia tags remain outstanding from 2025. More than 80% of camera citations issued to vehicles with Virginia tags in 2024 also remain unpaid.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-cracks-down-out-of-state-vehicle-tags-virginia-penalties/

I've seen a lot of license plates, but never one like this

https://forestservicemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/E0C6B128-A242-4681-958E-114581651075

this is new... getting a FOUO license plate frame

 

the variety of interesting Subaru license plates does not end

spotted in traffic

 

SDSU is San Diego State University. I live within walking distance of it, seeing SDSU vanity plates is not uncommon

THIS is an IMPOSTER! Not Just A Car Guy! Dang it.. I knew I should have gotten that vanity plate so no one else in California would... not it's too late a damn Tesla has it

 Don't be fooled by imposters! 

exemplary license plate art

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017520626826097/permalink/1551192336792254/

Comic Con is coming, July 22-26, and I'll be a bit busy organizing a team for waiting in line for Hall H in the next coming weeks, and that's going to reduce my amount of blogging a bit. Not a lot, but a bit

anyone have a guess what this is?

 

I have no idea what the license plate on this Lotus means... does anyone have a guess?

 

a Lexus with Moon Eyes... huh!

 

the license plate shows the car's coefficient of drag

This belongs to former Art Center head of Transportation Design Stewart Reed, often seen at the Center's annual car show. I met his daughter in Palm Springs at the 2013 Desert Concours while looking at a 1913 Buick. She mentioned she was going to make a website about cars. I wonder if she ever did? 

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/g71584958/san-marino-motor-classic-motors-2026/