California has joined Arizona and Michigan in allowing digital license plates. You can now fit a monochrome LCD screen on the rear of your vehicle. Currently, only one company, Reviver, has DMV authorization. It offers two versions, the battery-powered plate costs $99 to install, and $20 a month or $215 a year for four years. A hard-wired option includes GPS, which comes in handy if your car is pilfered—you can change the plate to show ‘stolen’. This costs $150 to install, and $25 a month or $275 a year for four years. Both have lowpower LTE to connect to the DMV’s cloud server and can display (approved) personal messages. There are some obvious security issues though.
–CL