Chinese Metropolis Might Only Let You Keep A Car For 10 Years

Guangzhou, a city of 12.7 million, is having trouble with traffic and air pollution. Now the city is considering a plan where you get to keep your license plate for ten years, and then the government takes your plate away and gives it to a new driver.

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How Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using sophisticated cameras, called “automated license plate readers” or ALPR, to scan and record the license plates of millions of cars across the country. These cameras, mounted on top of patrol cars and on city streets, can scan up to 1,800 license plate per minute, day or…

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With A Vanity Plate Like This, You Get The Porsche Carrera GT Thrown…

Low-digit license plates are big in Arabia. Abu Dhabi’s 1 sold for $14 million in 2008 while in neighboring Dubai 1 is registered to Sheikh Mohammed, the emirate’s ruler. This is plate number 1 from Oman attached to 612 hp of German bliss and I saw it go like hell.

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The Strange Handmade Charm Of India

Here in the USA, you can almost always spot an Indian product. This is very different than Chinese products, which are so numerous and varied as to be anonymous. But Indian products you find in the America, they almost all have this artisan/handmade quality. Whether it's jewelry in bins at Anthropologie or manhole…

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CATPUKE, MIHOLE, And 68 Pages Of Other Things Banned From DC's…

We're no strangers to motor vehicle departments restricting certain words from personalized license plates. Typically, genitalia, other sex themes, and things related to fecal matter and racism (same thing, really) are verboten. But what about words like PITA, SCOTCH, and RAIN?

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These Are The Hilarious Vanity License Plates You Can't Have In Georgia

Georgia! It's a bastion of decency and morality nestled deep within the Bible Belt. And for that reason, state officials can't let people drive around with whatever they want on their vanity license plates. Of course not! Such brazen displays of impropriety could upset people and cause them to riot in the streets.

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Is This The Most Appropriate License Plate For A Toyota Camry Ever?

The Camry has never been a lusted after sports car, but in its day it was something more than the beige appliance it's become. Specifically, it was a Forest Green sedan (or coupe or wagon) you could be proud to own. Now it just makes you bland and, as this plate shows, invisible.

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Californians Should Clamor For These Old-School License Plates…

I got insanely lucky the other day driving north on Highway 101. In a stretch of no fewer than 30 miles, I passed a Volvo P1800S, Jensen Interceptor and a Mercedes 300SL. And all of these cars had one noticeable thing in common: they all had modern California license plates.

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