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Number plates with smaller characters meeting standards for motorcycles are only permitted on imported vehicles, and then only if they do not have European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval and their construction/design cannot accommodate standard size number plates, for example vehicles made for the US or Japanese market may only have a ...
A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British English), license plate or licence plate (American English and Canadian English respectively), is a metal or plastic plate or plates attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. The registration identifier is a numeric or alphanumeric code that ...
The London congestion charge scheme uses two hundred and thirty cameras and ANPR to help monitor vehicles in the charging zone. In 2005, the Independent reported that by the following year, the majority of roads, urban cetres, London's congestion charge zone, [6] ports and petrol station forecourts will have been covered by CCTV camera networks using automatic number plate recognition.
Being able to hand them your insurance policy number along with your license and registration should help expedite your time spent in a traffic stop if you do happen to get pulled over.
Automatic number-plate recognition can be used to store the images captured by the cameras as well as the text from the license plate, with some configurable to store a photograph of the driver. Systems commonly use infrared lighting to allow the camera to take the picture at any time of day or night.
The patent describes the capability to connect the license plate to a centralized system for registration control, and a method whereby the centralized system can update the license plate display. Two examples are given; 1) in the situation where the vehicle is involved in a crime, or 2) where the registration is no longer valid.
Latasha Polk, 45, was one of the people killed in the attack in New Orleans' Bourbon Street on New Year's Day. / Credit: Courtesy of Latasha Polk's family
A Jaguar Mark IV car, registered under A1, parked in Cathedral Close, Exeter in front of St Martin's Church, May 1948 [1] The A1 registration plate is a United Kingdom vehicle registration plate that was first issued in 1903. It has since had several owners and has been transferred between many different vehicles.