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The California DMV apologized for a license plate appearing to mock the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. The car owner's son said it was being misinterpreted.
California's standard automobile license plates have a configuration of one number, followed by three letters, followed by three numbers, according to Ronald Ongtoaboc, spokesperson for the DMV.
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Since 1980, California’s passenger car license plates have followed the same format: one number, three letters, and three numbers (think 1ABC234). But that tried-and-true combo is at the end of ...
Digital license plates, which have been piloted in California since 2018, with just 175,000 participants, are now available to all of the state’s 27 million drivers, thanks to Assembly Bill 984.
California is running out of license plate numbers. Here's the new sequence you can expect to see on the road next year.
(In California, license plates stay with the car for its lifetime and the alphanumeric combinations are not re-used.) 0:00 / 0:00. Well, that didn’t work.
California has so many cars, in fact, that it is running out of unique alphanumeric combinations for its standard-issue, non-commercial-issue license plates faster than initially anticipated.
California is set to revamp its vehicle license plates in 2026, ending a nearly half-century-old format. The current sequence, a number followed by three letters and three numbers, is running out ...
“License plates are property of the State of California. It’s not your plate to modify.” Though some drivers with altered plates may get off with a warning, that’s not always the case.
Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a ...