It’s been 11 years since Steve Jobs He passed away and the curiosities regarding him are still valid, one of the most interesting being the fact that he never put a license plate on his car. the founder of Apple he managed to avoid doing it and without breaking the law.
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Although it is illegal to drive without a license plate, Everything indicates that Jobs did not like the idea that random numbers and letters were associated with him.
So to achieve this, he used a law in California, the state where he lived, that allowed without a registration to new cars for 6 months.
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But the businessman did not buy cars every 6 months, I rented them.
He managed to reach an agreement with a dealer so that it would give him a new Mercedes SL 55 AMGonce the set time is up. She did this for a long time.
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If Steve Jobs had tried to pull off that trick today, he wouldn’t have succeeded. A few years ago, in 2019, California declared that all cars had to have license plates as soon as they left the dealership.
A driver, whose car did not have a license plate, hit a passerby and the authorities never managed to find the culprit, so the law was modified.
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In any case, this is another of the curiosities that join the list of the founder of Apple.