California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers
cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/12448054
Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/california-is-running-out-of-license-plate-numbersOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
In case anyone doesn't want to read, the current pattern is
They are just going to start again reversed, so
Maybe this is just the computer engineer in me but a new numbering protocol that does not at least 10x the capacity of the previous one doesn't seem like an improvement.
The current one had a 45 year shelf life. This new system should last a good long while.
You misunderstand. We must plan for the possibility that the population of California will reach 1 billion within the next few years and that each person should be able to register at least 10 cars, just to be safe.
Still think they should have gone to A123ABC instead but I guess it's fine.
The plan: add a digit?
How easy that is depends on how deep the 7-digit format is embedded in however many lines of dusty COBOL spread out over whatever systems grew from, and are dependent on, the original.
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