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California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates

Posted by kdawson on from the distracted-stopping dept.

techmuse writes "The San Jose Mercury News reports that the California state legislature wants to put electronic advertising on license plates. The plate would display standard plate information when the car is moving, but would also display ads when the car is stopped for more than 4 seconds (say, at a red light). Not distracting or annoying at all! 'The bill has received no formal opposition. It passed unanimously through the Senate last month and is scheduled to be heard Monday by the Assembly Transportation Committee.'"

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  1. Re:Programmable Number Plates by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Speed and red light cameras become useless too, I can see a huge underground industry built up around this because there's no way in hell what ever "encryption" they use will last.

    Car in motion > 30 mph = some random number.
    Car stopped and < 30 mph = your 'real' number.

    Then ads for being stopped.

  2. Re:Programmable Number Plates by PitaBred · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll slow down as soon as the speed limits are set by engineers and not politicians and people with a monetary stake in the revenue from tickets resulting from said limits.

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  3. Re:Programmable Number Plates by unkiereamus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about, STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY?

    8 words : Ballot measures making a lot of spending mandatory.

    6 more words : Super-majority required for tax increases.

    People vote for ballot measures for spending, but then vote against the tax increases to pay for it.

    So, 2005 was the last year I could conveniently find (read 10 seconds of googling) numbers for, but according to taxfoundation.org, in 2005, CA sent ~$286,627,000,000 to the Federal Government, on the other hand they received ~$242,023,000,000 dollars worth of federal funding.

    I'd just like to note that this represents a 44.6 billion dollar disparity.

    Of course, the withdrawal of that money from the federal budget would mean the effective collapse of numerous other states (I started to add up the numbers, but frankly, I'm too lazy.)

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  4. Can it say "STOLEN" if somebody steals your car? by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That would be cool. Apart from that it's all fail.

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