Ontario's License Plate

[Laconian]

How'd this get approved? What a garbage design. Job #1 of license plates is to BE LEGIBLE! https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/807133008/ontarios-new-license-plates-have-a-problem-you-can-t-read-them?t=1582124883321

[Laconian]

Canadian 'SPINners, have you guys seen these in use yet?

[Payman]

Lol not yet, but we're having a good laugh. A few more millions of our tax $ should figure it out. I think we should have held a contest for grade 4 students to come up with the new design, with free Leafs tickets for the winner.

[giant_mtb]

[MrH]

I feel like there's some bank heist genius in the background who designed this and snuck it through.

I'm just glad my state FINALLY ended the front license plate madness.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Lol not yet, but we're having a good laugh. A few more millions of our tax $ should figure it out. I think we should have held a contest for grade 4 students to come up with the new design, with free Leafs tickets for the winner.

In 4th grade, I probably would have designed a plate with cats all over it, some of them definitley pooping.

[FoMoJo]

I'm fine with them not being able to be read.

[Laconian]

I'm fine with them not being able to be read.

Just wait 'til you're the victim of a hit and run. Legible plates are a critical part of keeping people accountable for actual harmful driving.

[Laconian]

So, from my perspective, it looks like the Scotchlite layer of the plate underneath just totally overwhelms the reflectivity of the dinky plastic vinyl alphanumerics.

[Payman]

Just wait 'til you're the victim of a hit and run. Legible plates are a critical part of keeping people accountable for actual harmful driving.

I believe he's referring to our toll hwys, which needs legible plates so they can bill you.

[CaminoRacer]

I'm just glad my state FINALLY ended the front license plate madness.

Did they really? Awesome.

Utah introduced a bill to get rid of them last year, so I wrote to my rep to support it. Unfortunately it didn't go anywhere. Then this year someone else introduced a bill to make a missing front plate a primary offense so that cops could pull you over for it. (Right now it's just a secondary offense so they have to have another reason to pull you over first). Luckily that got a decent amount of backlash and went to committee to die, but it still seems like they're going backwards.

[Payman]

Yeah, amongst this embarrassment we still have front fucking plates, and we DO get pulled over if we don't have one. 

[veeman]

Totally effed up.  Can't read the plate at night under bright lights. 

Connecticut requires a front plate but I never had one on my Beetle and no police officer ever bothered me about it.  The Crosstrek I put one on because it has a dedicated ugly black rectangle in the front where it's supposed to go. 

[Laconian]

I believe he's referring to our toll hwys, which needs legible plates so they can bill you.

Oh I know, but I'm just saying that illegibility cuts both ways.

[FoMoJo]

Just wait 'til you're the victim of a hit and run. Legible plates are a critical part of keeping people accountable for actual harmful driving.

Oh, Doug Ford, no wonder they're so crappy.

Must've had them printed up in one of his label shops.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

I'm just glad my state FINALLY ended the front license plate madness.

[MX793]

I guess people won't need to go out and buy those stupid fresnel or tinted lenses that make their plates harder to read by cameras, plate scanners, or human officers.

[Northlands]

Looks like Leafs plates. These are going to be the default plates?

We have sports plates in MB, but they are at least reflective.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Did they really? Awesome.

Utah introduced a bill to get rid of them last year, so I wrote to my rep to support it. Unfortunately it didn't go anywhere. Then this year someone else introduced a bill to make a missing front plate a primary offense so that cops could pull you over for it. (Right now it's just a secondary offense so they have to have another reason to pull you over first). Luckily that got a decent amount of backlash and went to committee to die, but it still seems like they're going backwards.

Front plates waste fuel because:

1) increased weight
B) increased aerodynamic drag

and therefore, front plates cause:

3) Global Warming

[Payman]

Front plates waste fuel because:

1) increased weight
B) increased aerodynamic drag

and therefore, front plates cause:

3) Global Warming

You fergot they block cooling air and the motors run hotter

[FoMoJo]

I don't understand the design of the plate.  What's that light blue stripe supposed to mean?

[Payman]

I don't understand the design of the plate.  What's that light blue stripe supposed to mean?

Fuck knows. But you know they paid some design firm millions for it.

[giant_mtb]

Fuck knows. But you know they paid some design firm millions for it.

Or some intern a day's wage before they said "looks good, send it."

[Eye of the Tiger]

You fergot they block cooling air and the motors run hotter

More warming!!!!