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California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by severalkittens@ani.social to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay wait let me do the math here, 10x26x26x26x10x10x10 = 175,760,000. The article says that commercial trucks get a different pattern of plate. So you're telling me there's 175 million passenger cars on the road in California? For scale, there's approximately 350 million American citizens. For every two Americans, there's a car registered in California? Not counting vanity plates or commercial vehicles.

What the intern fuck is going on there bud?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They don't want to reuse the numbers, so it's cars that are on the road now or ever have been.