Michigan became the second state in the country to roll out the world’s first digital license plate.
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.
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.
All that means is they’re rolling out the same model plate (the first digital plate) that the 1st state did. Not terribly complex.