I live in california and it really sucks that our license plates only go up to 7 digits. I was wondering how many more license plates would they have to issue before they would be forced to go to 8. Remember that not every one would want a license plate like number1 etc.
When will they make license plates with 8 digits?
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Why would they need to use more than 7?
7 would be sufficient for the entire US, let alone one state.
If they use all 36 alphanumeric characters that's over 78 billion combinations.
If you drop off a few to account for similar shaped letters/numbers (B/8, 0/O, Z/2 for example) & allow only 33 characters you still have 42 billion.
Viper GTS
7 would be sufficient for the entire US, let alone one state.
If they use all 36 alphanumeric characters that's over 78 billion combinations.
If you drop off a few to account for similar shaped letters/numbers (B/8, 0/O, Z/2 for example) & allow only 33 characters you still have 42 billion.
Viper GTS
Since they can use letters too, it will probably be a long time. Assuming that three posistions are numbers, the max would be 456,976,000
Originally posted by: Mildlyamused
Did you not read my post?!
Of course I read your post.
I would be astounded if there have been 3 billion cars produced in the entire world (Google search came up with roughly 35 mil produced last year worldwide, that's nearly 30 years to produce 1 billion). Even if fully half of the random 7 character alphanumeric plates were "undesirable" we would still have exhausted but 5% of the total plate space IF EVERY VEHICLE IN THE WORLD WERE REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA.
Viper GTS
Well I have noticed that california generates license plates with a certain pattern to not piss people off and wanted to know if this was so. If they had 8 characters for california license plates, it would enable people to have complete thoughts on their custom license plates. So many words/phrases are like 8 characters or at least thoughts are about 8 char long.
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Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Mildlyamused
Did you not read my post?!
Of course I read your post.
I would be astounded if there have been 3 billion cars produced in the entire world (Google search came up with roughly 35 mil produced last year worldwide, that's nearly 30 years to produce 1 billion). Even if fully half of the random 7 character alphanumeric plates were "undesirable" we would still have exhausted but 5% of the total plate space IF EVERY VEHICLE IN THE WORLD WERE REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA.
Viper GTS
is that even accounting for the fact that you can have a plate with less than 8 digits? (ie - "12dx" vs "12dx0000")
it doesn't work that way. certain characters HAVE to be digits or characters. you have to use a # for the first space (in CA, at least), and I believe the entire series is:
#-letter-letter-letter-#-#-#
so that severely limits the number of possibilities. don't believe me? we're up to 6 or 7 for the first digit already. in 1991, we were only at 3. as the OP implied, we are fast approaching the time at which the system has to change how it does things.
at this point, every car which is new to CA gets a new, unique plate. this is going to have to stop. if they just reuse numbers from cars that are no longer in operation or registered in other states, the problem would be solved.
edit: furthermore, there are no plates that start with 0, so that limits choices further. i did some multiplying and correct me if i'm wrong, but that leave about 177 million possibilities. for a state with 33 million people NOW, and many many many more in the past, who have purchased a sh!tload of cars (PLUS people who have moved in and moved back out again), can you see the problem?
Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Mildlyamused
Did you not read my post?!
Of course I read your post.
I would be astounded if there have been 3 billion cars produced in the entire world (Google search came up with roughly 35 mil produced last year worldwide, that's nearly 30 years to produce 1 billion). Even if fully half of the random 7 character alphanumeric plates were "undesirable" we would still have exhausted but 5% of the total plate space IF EVERY VEHICLE IN THE WORLD WERE REGISTERED IN CALIFORNIA.
Viper GTS
is that even accounting for the fact that you can have a plate with less than 8 digits? (ie - "12dx" vs "12dx0000")
CA doesn't re-use numbers at this point, so this is irrelevant.
Cause illegal alien boarder jumpers in CA can only count to 7. I mean how can they get a drivers license if they can't count the numbers on their license plates???
Ok time for another beer or 10
Ok time for another beer or 10
Christ, if this isn't typical of the latest f-tard influx of new members, I don't know what is. Figures he's from CA as well.
Yeah, that's why plates are on our cars, so nitwits like you can share your "complete thoughts". :roll:
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