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California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers (www.thedrive.com)

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Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.

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[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in australia we had alpha and numeric divided and then a few years ago we switched to just alphanumeric everywhere… the font used is made to be machine readable - an I and a 1 look very different; it’s a non-issue

[–] philthi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, using a smart font is a good solution.