Rude drivers beware: Your license plate may land online, on a gr...
Rude drivers beware: Your license plate may land online, on a gripe site begun late last year. PlateWire.com, founded by Fairfax, Va., resident Mark Buckman, grew out of Buckman’s frustration with a pathologically slow commute and 5 near-crackups on…
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a single trip. Honoring the maxim that drivers toe the line when police are watching, PlateWire will “become a real deterrent to unsafe driving habits,” letting users enter a vehicle plate number and comment on the associated driver under a category -- “award,” “flag,” “hazard” or “wink,” the last to flirt with drivers. Response comments are welcome. The most-cited plates make the homepage. Users can also enter plate numbers -- including their own -- to get RSS feeds listing comments about the plates’ owners. The site, founded in Nov., passed 3 million visits this week, Buckman said.