CNN Student News with subtitles. New York State was the first to require license plates in 1901. Car owners made the plates themselves. And they didn`t have numbers and letters on them that might have seemed random. Those first license plates had initials, kind of like a monogram for your car. The first state to actually issue plates itself was Massachusetts in 1903, the first number – 1. We`ve come a long way from those plates to cameras on traffic lights that take a picture when you run a red.
Post time: Jun-17-2017