Digital License Plates Now Available

[John Cinatl]

Hi Folks

I was at my local AAA office yesterday to renew my yearly AAA membership and while there I noticed a brochure promoting digital license plates.

I picked up a copy and found it very interesting - and expensive (like $800 +/-).

Here is the website which contains the same (and even more) information than  found in the brochure.

aaa.com/reviver 

John

[John Eldon]

Why? Am I missing something here? It sounds like a solution in search of a problem, and yet another way to track your every trip. I like the fact that if I don't bring my cell phone or lock it into a metal box, various spies on the Internet cannot track me. Same reason I avoid making my 50-year-old "dumb" home somehow "smart" -- I am a technologist and know what can go wrong and how connectivity can be misused. 

John 

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[Michael Graff]

I suppose the Reviver plate could be useful for a commercial fleet. But managing registration stickers in my household is not a huge burden.

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[Alan Wachtel]

That link didn't work for me; try https://reviver.com/geographic-expansion/california. 

Digital license plates have been around since 2023. I see one every once in a while--not often, but sometimes. The display can be flipped between black on white and white on black, but every one I've seen has been white on black. The main advantage seems to be that you can update your registration over the air and don't need to attach a new physical sticker every year. And people must think they look cool. 

~ Alan

[John Cinatl]

Hi Again

The link I attached in my original e-mail works on my laptop (but maybe it works because I'm also an AAA member) . Nonetheless when I open it on  my laptop it takes me to this website .................  so see if this works for some of you.

 If not let me know and I'll keep looking for a workable website. 

You might also try Googling using the word "reviver" or "reviver digital license plates"

.https://www.ace.aaa.com/discounts/partners/reviver.html?area=vanity_reviver&zip=93041&devicecd=PC

Separately............... I'm too am trying to figure out what these things really are - maybe small mountable tablets like a small rectangular I-Pad??? - since the owner can change the wording at the bottom of the plate - and if stolen someone (maybe law enforcement folks) can change the plate to read "Stolen".  

Another thought - its just a large mountable re-invented cell phone wherein both the plate owner and the DMV have editing authority????

And I agree with John Eldon - these things simply offer a "solution" in search of a "new problem".

On a separate note (and not bike related) - our current California license plate series began about 30 years ago with the first plate being 1AAA000. If you occasionally read license plates like I do you will be aware that DMV is now issuing plates in the upper 9xxxxxx's. As such we will soon reach 9ZZZ999 - then what???    Unless DMV reduces the size of the letters/numbers - or increases the size of the plate - there is not enough room on the plate for more than 7 letters/numbers so a 10AAA000 - 10ZZZ999 is probably not gonna happen. 

Does anybody have any idea of what's next??????????

John

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Subject: Re: [CABOforum] Digital License Plates Now Available

That website link didn't work. I still don't know what a "digital license plate" might be, Do I have to pay $800 to have 2 small monitors attached to my car??!!

DTW

[John Eldon]

Regarding your "plates after 9ZZZ999" question -- for several months I have been seeing yellow-on-black plates with a different letter-number configuration, reportedly just a reversal: NNNAAAN, instead of our current NAAANNN. Some of the early ones have fewer characters, but I suspect we'll soon be seeing all new non-custom plates with the full 7-alphnumeric array. 

John 

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[John Cinatl]

Hi John (and all CABO'ers)

The black and yellow plates are called "vanity" plates and can be ordered from DMV at an additional cost. They have been available for about 10 years and are not counted in the normal numbering system. 

Lots of old car enthusiasts love them since they make their "classic" cars appear more authentic.

John

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[Alan Wachtel]

The optional yellow-on-black retro or "legacy" plates seem to use a ANNNAN configuration. But the 2026 Series of the standard plates will indeed switch from the long-standing NAAANNN, which is nearly exhausted, to the reversed NNNAAAN. I haven't yet seen a plate with the new pattern, though. 

~ Alan

[John Cinatl]

Hi All

Some of us old guys remember when California used to change plate colors when a new series came out so I've seen gold letters on a black background, black letters on a gold background, yellow letters on a blue background and for the last 30 or so years blue letters on a white background. 

So maybe DMV will do as Alan says but with a reverse color scheme - white letters on a blue background.

John

Ps: I just reviewed some old photos of my mother's 1965 Chrysler and her plate was ZZS930 - yellow letters on a black background. 

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[John Eldon]

Yup, when I was a kid in the 1950 and 1960s, I remember the swap from black-on-yellow (3 letters and 3 digits) to yellow-on-black (reversed alpha - numeric orientation), then back again, before going to the 1-3-3 we have now. 

John 

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[John Cinatl]

Hi Jeff (and Cabo)

Awesome website - I had no idea that such a site existed. I bookmarked it for future use and for sharing with my old fart friends. 

To me if you needed plates you got your plates at DMV and nowhere else - so this website is eye opening to say the least.

And moreover reviewing the various previous plate options brings back lots of memories from the 50's 60's and 70's and my days "cruising" Van Nuys Blvd. - which always included a mandatory stop at Bob's Big Boy for one of their double decker burgers.  (sorry folks I got carried away) 

John

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On Sunday, May 10, 2026 at 03:56:27 PM PDT, Jeff Bruchez <jbru...@gmail.com> wrote:

Adding something CABO may find interesting. 

White on black doesn’t exist, but I do see them around and that frankly freaks me out. 

https://california-license-plate.com

Fake plates can be so dangerous, I’m surprised the AG’s office, or others, have not bothered to shut this down. 

</bikeJeff>

- Sacramento

- - sometimes Davis 

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[David Takemoto-Weerts]

My wife and I were driving home from Woodland this afternoon behind a nice-looking larger SUV I couldn't identify. Looked very new. At first I thought it had Nevada plates (blue with white characters), but as I drew closer I saw that it was "California" in script. Never saw that before --until I got home and read about them on that AAA reviver link John sent! Had to be one of those, though it did look just like a metal plate. The SUV it was on was clearly an expensive one --maybe a new Land Rover. In any event, I don't think I'll be in the market for one (SUV or e-plate) anytime soon! 

David Takemoto-Weerts

Davis, CA

On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM 'Alan Wachtel' via CABOforum <cabo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The optional yellow-on-black retro or "legacy" plates seem to use a ANNNAN configuration. But the 2026 Series of the standard plates will indeed switch from the long-standing NAAANNN, which is nearly exhausted, to the reversed NNNAAAN. I haven't yet seen a plate with the new pattern, though. 

~ Alan

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