I spotted an interesting article in Car+Driver during my lunchbreak about digital licence plates. They look like this...
...and are only legal in two of the United States of America.
I'm having problems understanding the benefits of these things. Apparently, they can be changed to give out alerts or to indicate that the vehicle has been stolen. They can also be linked in to the State licensing to update when the fees have been paid.
Well whoopdie-doo.
I say that because they cost $499 and then either $55 a year or $4.99 a month. It is also available for $17.95 a month for 36 months.
Yes, you have to subscribe to your own number plate. And think of all the prisoners it's going to put out of work.
And what happens when they get hacked?
The battery lasts five years though.
So, this evening, I returned to Car+Driver to create this post and spotted another intriguing headline - one concerning a dead badger. I posted about dead badgers many years ago when I was in a different employment to the one my lunchbreak interrupted today.
However, the new dead badger story is actually a dead Badger story - with a capital B - the Nikola Badger has been culled by GM pulling out of a deal to build the things.
Full story here.
It looks like this is the result of skullduggery - either on the part of Nikola or on the part of an investor trying to cash in on a crashing share-price. Nobody knows who yet - that story is here.
Shame, because if you put electric licence plates on it, it wouldn't need separate batteries.
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