It’s even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It’s almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.
Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks… Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, “Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I’s and 1’s, something’s up.”
“Oh, this guy again. I have all the paper work ready”
https://xkcd.com/1105/
there’s one of these for literally every meme ever huh?
Given how long the xkcd has been around I think the car is referencing the comic
2005 for those wondering.
Think they mean the specific comic
I’m almost sure they’re procedurally generated for some time now
I knew I read it somewhere, it didn’t remember it to be an xkcd comic
It’s even more boring than that - the license plate system already searches ambiguous characters. It’s almost like this issue comes up even without people gaming the system.
Oh like so I bet
if license plate person thinks they have 1 on they plate { do check to see if it’s \ actually == i }
Something like that, yeah, I think the system automatically checks… Although this has 8 ambiguous characters, so actually you could have 256 cars with virtually indistinguishable plates, which is a lot. I believe custom plates have an approval process, and I wonder if this would be part of it. Like, “Yeah, no more black lincoln town cars with all I’s and 1’s, something’s up.”
This is why I don’t have a tag on my car. Can’t track my license plate if I don’t have a license plate. It’s foolproof!