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try_the_basslast Friday at 7:39 PM1 replyview on HN

> On a related note, when I lived in FL, I often saw cars with this opaque plastic cover on number plates. I think these are installed by the drivers so that they can avoid paying road toll (FL has many road tolls). I also noticed that these drivers tend to be more aggressive in driving than others (that's how I noticed their license plates are covered).

I've noticed the same thing in my area of CA. Lots of folks with different devices to obscure their plates, and a strong correlation between the obscured plates and very poor or aggressive driving.

I've started to quip that the obscured plates + tinted windows + blacked-out taillights is the "frequent moving violation starter kit".

Or "tell me you violate the rules of the road without telling me you violate the rules of the road".

> Will the same punishment be applied to those drivers?

One could imagine that's actually the targeted demographic, and not the subset of folks trying to circumvent Flock cameras.


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OptionOfTlast Friday at 7:42 PM

I see these plastic covers a lot. Especially here in AZ they get UV damaged fast which makes them opaque.

And the more and more I want one. Not to drive like an ass. I don't. I just want to drive around without being tracked.

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