No more paper license plates: new law tears up old system
www.kxan.com
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that puts the brakes on Texas’ paper license plate problem by tearing up the current system. The new law replaces all paper tags with metal ones. It go…

I wonder how this will affect people. Metal plate printing services for cars that can’t pass inspection next?

    • csh@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There will still be emissions inspections in metro areas. But yeah. My first thought was that they’re getting rid of inspections, too.

  • CylonBunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The article talks about dealers, what about Tesla? They seem to the main offender already and they don’t have dealers so…?

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In case anyone’s curious about how this can work in practice, Arizona started doing this a few years ago. I don’t have a link handy, but as I recall, it was pretty much a nonstory. I looked it up because they’d gone with random strings of letters and digits to avoid exhaustion for decades as part of it, and those stuck out on the road.