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Many new vehicles will take a large format European-style license plate in the back, or on both ends. US state motor vehicle departments could offer European-style plates as a premium option. You would receive a package of one standard plate and one euro plate, or two euro plates. As normal, both plates issued to a given vehicle (or, in the case of Nevada, owner) would bear the same number, whatever the format of the plate. Law enforcement, whose lobbyist groups would have to sign off on such an idea before it's presented to the state legislature, could support this as it would be easier to identify a vehicle from a larger distance. This is already being done in parts of Australia.
Scott Sanchez, Apr 29 2008
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I can't understand why you think this would be better or why people would pay a premium to make their own car 'more easily identified'.
Having myself designed toll-booth camera systems for computer OCR, I can tell you that most 'Euro' format plates are Not easier to identify because 1. The characters aren't as tall as North American plates and 2. they tend (even more than us)to put identifying marks for their territories or pictures in amongst the lettering. 3. North America usually uses six characters, i.e. ABC123, where Europe usually uses seven. Seven is not easier to read than six.
The biggest difficulties in identifying plates for OCR computers come from seeing something unexpected. Some states or territories that put their flower or fruit on the plate, plates with letter-number combinations that aren't predictable, plates with license-frames or covers (illegal in most of the US) that obscure things. I think these same things cause difficulty for people.
Possibly People can read a Euro plate more easily Sometimes, but the variation in font from Germany to Belgium, or from one US state to another can vary the readability of any plate by a huge degree.
And back to the paying-more part--I can't think of any reason why I'd ever want my plate to be more easily read--usually it's just an officer reading it to check me for warrants before he writes my speeding ticket.
If you think Euro plates are just cooler because their not American, feel free to live and drive in Europe.