How Steve Jobs Drove Without License Plates

For years, many people wondered how Steve Jobs got away with driving his silver Mercedes SL55 AMG without license plates. Rumors existed that Jobs either was daring the California police to pull him over or that California authorities had given Jobs a special dispensation.

ITWire interviewed a former Apple security executive and discovered the real reason for the missing plates: California gives car owners six months to get license plates for new vehicles, and Jobs would have his leasing company switch out his silver Mercedes every six months for a new, identical model.

See Justin Hyde, Latest Steve Jobs Mystery Revealed: How He Drove Without License Plates, Yahoo! Autos, Oct. 27, 2011.

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this to my attention.