"Let me get this out there first. If they don't already allow custom images to be displayed, they will. They will then display gifs and moving images. They will also get wifi and LTE connections. Eventually, full movies will be streamed on these license plates, making it even harder for me to avoid spoilers for the avengers."

Use mesh networking and cars can tattle-tale on others, "The Hyundai with the expired tax went that way, auto-cop!", and it'd be easy enough to spot because the display will be blinking "Expired tax" instead of showing the plate.

Also I hope you're right and he's wrong.

Though I can imagine a pretty cool hacker future where people just hack tags in to place. I'm also afraid of them being equipped with RFID.

Why do you need to risk a human life to figure out how fast a vehicle is going?( I am talking about a policeman sitting in his car with a radar gun which may or may not be calibrated correctly, then pulling you over and potentially risking his/her life)

Theoretically, if all vehicles were roughly the same mass and traveling the same speed, the probability of death would go down drastically in the event of an accident.

Just my 2cents

I’m sorry, I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.

I would not be surprised at some point someone somewhere comes up with a version where given a "driving score" you may or may not be allowed to get on a given roadway.

Automatic speeding tickets seem to be beyond the pale everywhere, they are trivial to implement on toll roads and yet do not happen.

I think there is a good to great chance they are used for per mile taxation in CA, and either mandated for new electric vehicles or encouraged through hassling regulations if you don’t.

They are equipped with GPS.

Meanwhile, thieves who aren't fools will simply remove the plates and toss them into the nearest unattended truck bed.

Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.