Isn't this the same argument gun grabbers make about guns? When license plate covers are illegal, only criminals will have license plate covers.
IOW they don't want anything getting in the way of their totalitarian surveillance-state traffic
* cameras.
* - One of the things that ought to make it really easy to get out of these traffic-camera system tickets is that such a system could easily be rigged to have a quota... which makes the we get a percentage
contracts that the traffic-camera companies normally have really suspicious.
Don’t we have more important things to do?
I had a crazy neighbor scratch my license plate up where the tags are (he was kicked out of his apartment later for fighting with another neighbor). I do not have a cover.
I am guessing the gov wants to send people more tickets while being immune himself.
There was a SCOTUS case last year (?) where a murderer was attempting to overturn his conviction on the basis of an Iowa law that prohibited any part of the license plate, including the county in which it was issued, from being obscured. He was trying, unsuccessfully, to say that the county name being obscured by a frame didn't make it 'obscured.'
The State had argued, ultimately successfully, that the deputy was well within his rights to stop the murderer's car, giving the justification that if they see a car in their area in the middle of the night from some other perhaps far-away county, it gives them sufficient pause to have the right to investigate it.
I don't agree with the decision, freedom of assembly and right to travel unmolested and all that, but nevertheless, the guy's conviction was upheld.
In the state of Washington you have to buy a new plate every seven years regardless of condition because they say that in seven years your plate will be unrecognizable because of damage; you’re looking at maybe thirty dollars a plate if personalized. Talk about government scamming for more money. A friend of my dad’s took his military personal plate in pristine condition and threw it on the counter at the DMV and demanded to know why he had to replace it. He still had to and wound up with a different number as well.
I have seen tinted covers I could barely read through from 10 feet away. I think you should get a ticket for that. But a cover that you can read through easily? Doesn’t bother me.
I suppose they never considered the sand storms and the constant sand in the vacuum area that pulls all of the road sand into the bumper.
Because the Surveillance State says so.
What about a James Bond-style rotating license plate?
How about a device that obscures the plate from cameras without a physical covering?
Perhaps carefully positioned lasers or strobe lights.... or small mist sprayers to keep a cloud of refracting water droplets over he license plate?
How about a device that obscures the plate from cameras without a physical covering?
Perhaps carefully positioned lasers or strobe lights.... or small mist sprayers to keep a cloud of refracting water droplets over he license plate?
Myth Busters already busted that crapmyth.........
This is a great law. I wish Pennsylvania would do the same thing. I have seen plastic coverings which obscured the plate so badly that it could not be read from 10 feet away and the cops ignore it here in Pennsylvania. There is no viable reason for those covers and also the plate covers that obscure the state name and other information.
Yeah, they did that in Florida a while back. It is the only reason I’ve been pulled over before.