California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates 624
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from the distracted-stopping dept.
from the distracted-stopping dept.
techmuse writes "The San Jose Mercury News reports that the California state legislature wants to put electronic advertising on license plates. The plate would display standard plate information when the car is moving, but would also display ads when the car is stopped for more than 4 seconds (say, at a red light). Not distracting or annoying at all! 'The bill has received no formal opposition. It passed unanimously through the Senate last month and is scheduled to be heard Monday by the Assembly Transportation Committee.'"
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:2, Funny)
I can see everybody loving having a flashing ad for "male enhancement" products on their plates at the stop lights
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:3, Funny)
Lower fees? (Score:5, Funny)
Crashes? (Score:3, Funny)
What if it gets the Blue Screen of Death?
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:5, Funny)
Jailbreak your license plate. $19.95. Text 'Plate' to 55555 and follow this car for 60 seconds.
How about Tetris? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about Tetris? (Score:1, Funny)
How would you move the piece left/right? With your turn signals? :p
sweet (Score:2, Funny)
Re:pulled over? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:4, Funny)
What? Honk if you're horny?
Re:How about Tetris? (Score:3, Funny)
Turn signals: Move piece left and right
Flash high beam: Rotate piece
Honk horn: Drop piece
Yes, that would help drivers relax in a stressful traffic jam! Traffic tetris - Brilliant!
Re:Crashes? (Score:5, Funny)
What if it gets the Blue Screen of Death?
Blue screens are almost always a driver problem.
Keyboard? (Score:2, Funny)
"Hey, you, assh*** where the f**k did you learn to drive?!!!"
No more need to use the horn.
Re:Really? (Score:1, Funny)
You stay classy California.
Yep. Remember -- we're the state whose idiot voters a few years back allowed collection of DNA simply on arrest, not to wait for conviction or even indictment.
IIRC, there was a suit many years back that went as far as the SC. Someone had a license plate like "Idaho -- Famous Potatoes" or "Utah -- Skiing Wonderland". He taped over the ad, contesting that he had no obligation to engage in unwilling, unpaid advertiser for the state. He also contended that his action in no way detracted from the plate's primary function of uniquely identifying his vehicle or demonstrating current registration status. I believe the SC upheld his position. (Bet it didn't stop the bastard cops form harassing him "on good faith because the decision wasn't sufficiently promulgated.)
I'll also bet this will be OKed by the courts, as they've been thoroughly co-opted by business interests over the years.
Next issue -- how slow do you have to be going for the shit to appear? It may even contribute to traffic safety if drivers slow down well in advance and creep forward slowly, instead of coming quickly up to the car ahead and stopping at the last minute. If so, it would sure change my driving habits.OTOH, I'd also spend a decent time working out a simple accelerometer-controlled circuit to disconnect the son of a bitch while stopped. The components have to be incredibly cheap these days.
It may also add to the fun if other states enact laws saying that any plate driving through the state maintain a constant display of the license number only. Of course the plate will likely, in the end, be required to display the number for the benefit of the prick cops' drive-by plate scanners. Fucking bastards.
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:4, Funny)
"Don't jizz on me"?
Sounds like the Gadsden Flag of the sexual revolution.
"Wank Free Or Die"
Re:Driving is a privilege, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:4, Funny)
If the US should ever build the equivalent of the Autobahn, and decide not to post any speed limit at all, I will be among the first to drive it. :^)
I'd wait a year for the loons to Darwin themselves and then just go out and .... and .... make love to it. Like I said in a previous post, take away limits that people have lived under all their lives and the first expression of that newfound freedom is likely to be ... unwise.
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:3, Funny)
So I can just imagine what the first hacker is going to draw on a plate.
8008135 ?
Re:Pb vs U (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Green technology (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, and what do the powered license plates display when they break?
The blue license plate of death?
Re:Really? (Score:4, Funny)
"Roger, I need a check on a plate. California plate Papa-Three-November-One-Sierra. Wait no, scratch that. He rolled forward a bit. New plate number Charlie-One-Alpha-One-Sierra."
How will the owner of the vehicle get compensated? (Score:2, Funny)
broken (Score:5, Funny)
what do the powered license plates display when they break?
PC_LOAD_AD
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Idiots? They make more money than we do and all they have to do is drive fast and turn left. Who's the bigger idiot?
Re:Programmable Number Plates (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
"OK, the plate seems to be: Victor-India-Alpha-Golf-Romeo-Alpha."