• @[email protected]
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    1511 months ago

    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.

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      511 months ago

      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
      }
      
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        11 months ago

        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.”