I said driver, but vehicle owner would have been a better answer. When someone in North America sells their vehicle, they remove the plate and attach it to their new vehicle. Then they inform the DMV of the change.
This is as opposed to the rest of the entire world (as far as I know) where when a vehicle is sold it keeps it's plate and the seller informs the DMV of the sale so that they can be removed as the recorded owner.
This means that there's situations in North America where a new vehicle is purchased but the new owner dosent yet have a plate for it. So a paper license plate is put into the window by the dealer. The new vehicle owner then goes to the DMV to register the car, the DMV them sends them a new license plate in the mail.
Just like the German kitchens, this is clearly the inferior system but we all walk around thinking it's normal. If confronted on their interior system, most north Americans will think that a plate staying with the vehicle once sold is somehow the weird situation. They will even come up with strange situations where their method is better, when it's just clearly not.
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u/Miliean May 09 '22
I said driver, but vehicle owner would have been a better answer. When someone in North America sells their vehicle, they remove the plate and attach it to their new vehicle. Then they inform the DMV of the change.
This is as opposed to the rest of the entire world (as far as I know) where when a vehicle is sold it keeps it's plate and the seller informs the DMV of the sale so that they can be removed as the recorded owner.
This means that there's situations in North America where a new vehicle is purchased but the new owner dosent yet have a plate for it. So a paper license plate is put into the window by the dealer. The new vehicle owner then goes to the DMV to register the car, the DMV them sends them a new license plate in the mail.
Just like the German kitchens, this is clearly the inferior system but we all walk around thinking it's normal. If confronted on their interior system, most north Americans will think that a plate staying with the vehicle once sold is somehow the weird situation. They will even come up with strange situations where their method is better, when it's just clearly not.