Article 3T6WB Would you pay $700, plus a monthly fee, for a digital license plate?

Would you pay $700, plus a monthly fee, for a digital license plate?

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Cyrus Farivar
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Enlarge / Reviver CEO Neville Boston poses with the Rplate, a new digital license plate that is now available in California. (credit: Cyrus Farivar)

FOSTER CITY, Calif.-It's been a few weeks now since a Bay Area startup put a digital license plate on my car.

So far, nobody seems to have noticed. I haven't yet been pulled aside by police or civilians asking what it is. At first glance, this electronic device looks exactly like a traditional, stamped metal license plate. The new digital plate has the same scripted CALIFORNIA icon up top and uses the exact same size and font to show the numbers and letters.

But in actuality, what I have is an "Rplate," a $700 plate-sized Kindle-like screen on the back of my car-high-contrast grayscale e-ink and all.

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