When some fuckwit runs me over and speeds away, you betcha I'm gonna want to know whom XYZ-123 belongs to. What did you think license plates are for in the first place?

If you've lived under the misapprehension that what you do with a multi-ton piece of lethal equipment hurtling through traffic belongs to your sphere of privacy, it's high time to snap out of it.

(Fortunately, of course, no blockchain silliness is needed for this; I can look up a license plate on the centralised car registry DB any time.)