We believe in accountability here, and it’s time for us to take some accountability:
States have introduced some new license plates.
And we missed the news.
As we prepared for License Plate Bracket III this weekend, we were scrubbing for this very thing, and unfortunately, our audit revealed something troubling: more than one states has changed its license plate, and we have failed to notice.
To be fair, this is partially on you guys. You know we like license plates. You’re in most of the fifty states. You couldn’t have told us about New York??
We did cover Ohio’s new plate last fall, and to be fair about the Rhode Island situation, I don’t think their new one is on the roads yet. Kentucky’s shift was subtle enough that who really cares. The New York swap, though, was a huge miss, and realizing we missed one that big makes us realize this audit needs to go deeper. We’ll be spending the rest of the week scouring DMV websites and local news bulletins, splitting every security thread we touch to make sure License Plate Bracket III has only the most current plates on the block. We would, of course, appreciate any insight you might offer. Most of you see cars now and then. Look at their license plates. Tell us about their license plates. Basically: If you see something, say something. (Danny, Michigan’s is not new—the Mackinac one is an alternate and has been around for years, so please stop telling us it should be Michigan’s entrant in the bracket. We use standard plates here. We’re bloggers of the people.)
The fact of the matter is that we pride ourselves here on blogging about license plates, and we failed in this instance to adequately blog about license plates. We let you down, and we did a disservice to every other license plate website out there, besmirching the industry through our gross negligence. We will come back stronger. We will come back more informed. We will come back with, hopefully, license plate images that are all the same size so they’re easier to put in Instagram graphics.
Stick with us. We won’t let you down again.
