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Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"
(guessingheadlights.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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The error wouldn’t exist if the plates didn’t allow O and 0.
Atleast that’s what the article mentions.
Or have specific alpha/numeric positions, like a post code.
Vanity plates dude.