At a time when Apple device users are celebrating the launch of a new operating system, we recall a curious story featuring Apple founder Steve Jobs and a Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG without a license plate.
Steve Jobs he is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic personalities of the modern era. Known for his genius and ability to foresee trends, he was responsible for the creation of one of the biggest technological giants in the world: Nokia. Sorry… Apple. That brand of the toothed apple that sells expensive phones and that almost everyone aspires to have, do you know?
I must say that I also joined the Apple tribe a few months ago and I confess that I'm actually enjoying the experience (although I'm still crying for the money I gave for the damn phone).
But what brings us here are cars, not cell phones. And Steve Jobs, contrary to what we could imagine, did not drive a hybrid model of fashion. None of that, led a Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG . Is Steve Jobs a petrolhead?
The car without license plate
Maybe it wasn't petrolhead and it just had good taste, nothing more. It makes sense that a man who didn't want to waste time choosing clothes would also not want to waste a lot of time on the commute home-work-home, and from that point of view choosing a comfortable sports car like SL makes perfect sense. And why use it without a license plate and park it in spaces reserved for the disabled?
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Maybe just because I could. Because it was Steve Jobs and because he was a multi-millionaire. Jobs circulated unregistered in California thanks to a loophole in that state's legislation. According to the law CVC 4456 of the state of California, it is possible to travel on public roads with an unmarked vehicle for up to six months after its purchase, as long as it is authorized by the responsible highway entity and with a sign on the windshield.
THE Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG Steve Jobs belonged to a rental company, and whenever the lease ran for six months, Steve Jobs would hand over the car and pick up another one exactly the same. Et voilá… car without a license plate for another six months — a chico-smart chick, by the way of the truth! According to some news circulating on the internet, Steve Jobs let the period of six months expire a few times and even had to pay some hefty fines… 65 dollars.
It was for these and others that the state of California recently announced that it will repeal this law. At issue is the difficulty in identifying unregistered vehicles that travel at excessive speed and also a case of being run over and running away involving a vehicle in these conditions – the pedestrian ended up dying as a result of this being run over.
While it is not possible to say with 100% certainty why Steve Jobs drove around in a car without a license plate, the most plausible answer is however the fact that this loophole in the law allows Steve Jobs to drive at speeds above legal limits and park in places for the disabled with almost impunity.
Steve Jobs died in 2011, he was 56 years old.