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Motor vehicles have made life so much easier for us, I think they've earned the same unique, individual names given to maritime vessels.
Rather than use boring, mundane license numbers, give vehicles names. For instance, instead of police calling out over the radio "put an APB on license # A623T7",
you hear, "put an APB on [The Flipping Bird]".
Seriously, boats and ships have names. Why not cars and trucks?
I don't think the number of vehicles is an issue, because there are more e-mail addresses than vehicles in existance, and they're all different.
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
Destination URL.
E.g., http://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
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My car is called Delores. |
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And mine's Tonya. But I want my car officially registered that way. |
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OK, I'll pick you up tomorrow in POScar1983@ford.com |
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Call yours whatever you want, I'm not
stopping you. |
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Your analogy with email addresses
doesn't follow I'm afraid [21Q]. Email
addresses as you know are in the form
user@domain.topleveldomain, all of
which are interchangeable and different.
Thus, there are almost an infinate
combination. |
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Your idea might work if your car was
known as theflippingbird@US.car.
Remember, boats and ships fly country
flags to show their nationality. |
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This is close to a WIBNI. |
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That's how it would be officially registered, jon. Your tag would simply say "Tonya". If police are searching for it in the database, they'd type in "Tonya" and select the one listed as a red Ford compact. |
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Names could be limited, so there's only one of each color, make, and size. |
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For what it's worth, boats also often have printed below the name the city or country of registry. |
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Perhaps cars ought to have that painted on the rear deck (boot) lid:
COLLEGE FUND
Quahog, RI |
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With a little state flag decal. |
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(edit to remove any semblance of calling out any one user, which I didn't mean to do). |
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.. and many people would absolutely
hate
this idea and so it would have to be
optional. The name one might chose is
personal to me and reflects my
personality
- and I don't want other roadusers to
know
anything of that as it's none of their
business. |
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[shapu] yep, I know boats/ship display a
country flag and often cities are coded
into the names too. Boats here in the
UK have a registration code and a name. |
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Isnt it hard enough to get a personalized tag that someone dosen't already have? |
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My motorcycles I liked were Windrush, Pony, and Ironwing. The ones I didn't like didn't get named. |
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Trucks were Bessie, Jake, and Redwing. |
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Current car is Bet-ty (Kung Pow reference). |
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I hate this idea with a passion. Anthropomorphizing cars is pathetic. It's just what Madison Avenue wants you to do. I think it's okay for boats because those aren't advertised millions of times a year on TV and radio. There's something based in humanity about boats. Cars are merely factory-produced machines that need to be operated with care. Why not give your computer a name too? Or your electric shaver. |
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//Anthropomorphizing cars is pathetic// |
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But no-one said the name had to be a human one. |
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21's example was "The Flipping Bird" - hardly likely to make it into a book of baby names. |
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I know someone who called their car Edie, or ED, for "environmental damage". |
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Many years ago my mother used to call her car "Duchess", but it seemed to have a thing for 18-wheelers, which I suppose means her car was an anachronistic anthropomorphized environmentally detrimental mechanical conveyance. Try saying that 3 times fast. |
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So it appears a lot of people already do this, mostly in private, which I think is best. The refinement of adding ID stickers and flags and such would just alert B&E thieves and carjackers as to which vehicles belong to tourists and lead to higher crime rates. |
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I'm with [jon] on this one - idea, thy name is WIBNI. |
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//Or your electric shaver.\\ I resent that! my shaver has a name! |
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