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Australians are the only drivers ever to leave the DMV with a smiley face

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The alphabet runs from A to Z, with a few weird umlauts thrown in if you’re European or a mëtalhëad. But what if the normal letter-number combinations no longer do when you want to express your individuality in the form of a license plate? The Australian state of Queensland has an answer for that: emojis.

For 475 Australian dollars, or $

340

U.S., Queensland drivers can choose from five emojis that will be reproduced on their chosen plate, in addition to previous customization styles such as a fancy color. The options are the usual smile, sunglasses, a wink, heart-eyes and the crying-laughter emoji, and they will have to appear together with digits, not by themselves. This means that a 707-horsepower

Dodge

driver won’t be able to have a

HELLCAT

plate with a cat emoji as decoration, sadly, and people thinking lowly of their econobox cannot go with the more derogatory symbols.

As The Verge reports

, concerns have been raised about how well the emoji plates work in their intended job, to distinguish vehicles. The president of Queensland Law Society, Bill Potts,

asked the Brisbane Times

: “How do you write down the emoji in your number plate after an accident?” But it’s a fair point that just like a normal vanity plate, a somewhat annoying smiley in a license plate will stay in your mind better after a hit-and-run than just a regular series of random numbers and letters.

Emoji license plates

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