The left does love labeling people for authorities...
Posted on 01/24/2019 8:32:43 AM PST by bitt
Michigan became the second state in the country to roll out the world's first digital license plate.
According to an article in The Car Connection, the state of Michigan just approved Reviver Auto's digital license plates called the "Rplate."
Reviver Auto boasts that a total of five states have already approved their digital license plates.
"Our innovative, multi-functional digital license plate, the Rplate Pro, will be on the road in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas in 2018".
George Orwell could never have dreamed of a world where license plates became a tool for more government surveillance.
Digital license plates are a privacy nightmare for motorists.
No longer will law enforcement have to run your license plate to see if you paid your taxes and insurance, because now your license plate will display a big "X" notifying everyone that you are a violator. image: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/images/ads/TCC_banner1.jpg
Digital license plates are the epitome of Big Brother surveillance
According to an article in WIRED, Rplates will turn vehicles into rolling Big Brother billboards that display Amber Alerts and much more.
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Michigan became the second state in the country to roll out the world’s first digital license plate.
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To9 bad. You really should strive to understand.
Maybe 5th first. If you had kept reading you would have seen: " a total of five states have already approved their digital license plates".
More garbage writing by a blogger. I guess we could always search out the story on Wired that the blogger was cribbing from to try to figure out what was really going on.
$200 per year. Every year.
>>According to Reviver Auto, motorists have to pay a $99 annual subscription fee and a monthly $8.00 LTE fee for the privilege of being surveilled.
Someone is getting rich off of patents and forced subscriptions.
Check political donation records and family connections
Je ne regrette rien.
I was going to make a similar comment, and add
"Our innovative, multi-functional digital license plate, the Rplate Pro, will be on the road in California, Florida, Arizona and Texas in 2018".
Huh? We're past 2018, so that means that Michigan isn't even second in being first.
So I drilled down to the original article in Activist Post that was cited in this article, and they cited a press release from Revive Auto that claims their plates will be on the road in California, Arizona, Florida and Texas in 2019
So that led me to Google the Michigan SOS and digital plates, and this Detroit Free Press article popped up: Michigan 1st state to approve digital license plates: What it means
Which says that Michigan was the first to approve these plates for general use (there is a small pilot program in California), in December of 2018, and that the plates cost $500, and are voluntary for the owner to purchase, but they are not going to be issued by the state.
So much ado about very little. It's an EZ Pass in your plate instead of in your windshield.
Digital car registration plates. An overly ambitious solution in search of an almost non-existent problem.
I don’t think these plates are mandatory, but rather approved for people who want them.
All that means is they’re rolling out the same model plate (the first digital plate) that the 1st state did. Not terribly complex.
Or a more efficient way of doing what has always been done.
Since courts have already ruled that states cannot use special plates to warn others of drunk drivers, or that businesses cannot show names of those who bounced checks, how do they figure they can use the plates to show anything other than that they’ve not been renewed once expired?
It sounds like a gee-whiz license plate you have to buy and pay for the privilege of displaying it. I suppose some time in the future it could become “free” and mandatory for everyone.
I didn’t say I couldn’t understand it, but thanks for mansplaining it anyway.
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