California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers
California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers
www.thedrive.com California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers
The seven-character pattern California has used for 45 years will finally run out of combinations in 2025, two years earlier than expected. But America's largest car market has a plan.
cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/12448054
Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.
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The plan: add a digit?
How easy that is depends on how deep the 7-digit format is embedded in however many lines of dusty COBOL spread out over whatever systems grew from, and are dependent on, the original.
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