NY woman who used to own "NCC-1701" license plate ticketed thousands of dollars because of cars with Star Trek novelty plates going through traffic cameras.

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• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Part of the confusion may come from states with different license plate rules.

  Twenty states require only a rear plate, which means drivers can legally put a novelty or decorative plate on the front. The remaining 30 states require a state-issued plate on both the front and back of the vehicle; New York is one of them.

  That may explain why law enforcement would assume a decorative “Star Trek” plate on the front of the car would be a legitimate license plate.

  This is one of the stupider “50 countries in a trench coat pretending to be one country” things we have going on. There’s no reason not to require plates on both the front and back bumper, especially when it’s opening the door for confusion with fake plates on the optional bumper.

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  • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is also no reason to dismiss front plate pictures as unreliable.

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So many vehicles in those 20 states don’t even have a front plate holder at all because they were either removed by the dealer or didn’t come with them in the first place.

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    • Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I bought a new car last year and it doesn’t even have a mounting spot. I don’t think it’s a big deal either not having two plates.

      For fun I looked up how I’d have to mount a front plate and it’s just gross.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or just scrap double plates as an unnecessary and outdated thing.

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No reason? How do you think those plates get made?

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  • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah no. The thing here is that some cars are not designed to have a front LP, and you’ve got me fucked up if you think I’m going to drill holes in a piece of art.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Front plates are bad for aerodynamics/fuel efficiency.

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    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Source? It can’t be a significant amount

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of the guy with the ‘null’ license plate:

  wired.com/…/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-…

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hopefully the rmv learned to sanitize their inputs.

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    • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clearly they never spoke to Bobby Tables.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would they learn that when they’re not the ones suffering the consequences?

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You tellem Bobby T.

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  • datendefekt@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Comment validation failed: Name cannot be null.

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• TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Grew up in a state with front plates… Later I moved to a place with only rear plates…

  Idk why the front ones are even needed to be honest… Ease of enforcement?

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems reasonable to be able to identify cars from both sides

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    • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And unreasonable to walk around to read the back plate?

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  • derGottesknecht@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How are speed cameras handled in one plate states? In Germany we have front plates so you get the driver and the plate on one picture

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    • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Owner/holder of registration is held liable for any photoradar that is mail based.

      Officer based (pulled over) is on whomever is driving the vehicle.

      Never seen it be an issue, fault wise

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess it’s good that the Bort license plate was already taken.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Excuse me, were you talking to me?

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• mulcahey@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same thing happened to the guy with the Ghostbusters license plate

  www.nbcnewyork.com/news/…/5503912/

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