Elsewhere: Avoiding a license plate

Ever since Steve Jobs’ death earlier this month, stories that people might have been afraid to pass on while he was alive have been floating around. The most interesting is how he got away with driving a car without a license plate:

Steve (or someone close to him) spotted a loophole in the California vehicle laws. Anyone with a brand new car had a maximum of six months to affix the issued number plate to the vehicle.

So Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one. At no time would he ever be in a car as old as six months; and thus there was no legal requirement to have the number plates fitted.