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smorgasbord
Active Member
Just picked these up from the DMV
For the Roadster:
For the Model S:
So far, no-one at work, including those who have gotten rides in the Roadster, got either plate. Oh well...
For the Roadster:
For the Model S:
So far, no-one at work, including those who have gotten rides in the Roadster, got either plate. Oh well...
For the Model S:
So far, no-one at work, including those who have gotten rides in the Roadster, got either plate. Oh well...
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shark2k
Member
Todd Burch
14-Year Member
My personal rules for vanity plates:
1) No inside jokes. They're not funny to the 99.999% of people that read the plate.
2) if you can't figure them out in about 3 seconds, try something else
1) No inside jokes. They're not funny to the 99.999% of people that read the plate.
2) if you can't figure them out in about 3 seconds, try something else
Todd Burch
14-Year Member
hjr
#1291
Just got my new Connecticut plates. Maybe now people will stop asking me stupid questions about the car!
DZCPA
2.5 2011#1263 "NO GAZZZ"
They all use the letter O instead of the number 0 (zero) in places where one would want a zero.
I had that happen once with a personalized plate where I tried to use 900 (for 900cc) as part of the plate, but the DMV created it as "9OO" (with letters).
Once I got stopped and when the highway patrol tried to run the 900 (nine-zero-zero) part it came back as not a valid plate.
I wonder if those cars would suffer the same issue if someone tried to "run their plate" and used zeros instead of letter Os.
Check how a letter O looks more like a box shape, with a zero (at the end) being more oval (tall and thin):
I wonder if it is just a clerk or OCR trying to scan in and mis-entering letters instead of numbers when they create it?
I wonder what would happen if you tried to get a personalized plate with a mix of zeros and letter Os like 0O0O0O
I had that happen once with a personalized plate where I tried to use 900 (for 900cc) as part of the plate, but the DMV created it as "9OO" (with letters).
Once I got stopped and when the highway patrol tried to run the 900 (nine-zero-zero) part it came back as not a valid plate.
I wonder if those cars would suffer the same issue if someone tried to "run their plate" and used zeros instead of letter Os.
Check how a letter O looks more like a box shape, with a zero (at the end) being more oval (tall and thin):
I wonder if it is just a clerk or OCR trying to scan in and mis-entering letters instead of numbers when they create it?
I wonder what would happen if you tried to get a personalized plate with a mix of zeros and letter Os like 0O0O0O
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By the way,
I think the slashes through the letters Os in "O OIL O" were added by hand,
4OOth was probably meant to be 400th as the 400th Roadster,
and 1OTESLA was probably meant to be 10TESLA for a 2010 Tesla.
Mycroft
Life happens
WA state gets around that. In WA, the number 1 and the letter I are the same character as are the number 0 and the letter O. I'm guess they're all ones and zeros for computer purposes.
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