It's not about hiding — it's about sending a message.

IIRC, Steve Jobs was known to do this in his black plateless Mercedes (decades ago).

Wired even wrote this up (2010). Getting a new lease every 6 months, which apparently legally let him go plateless somehow. https://www.wired.com/2010/08/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plat...

I found it pretty grossly offensive a practice.

	▲	ProllyInfamous 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I lived nearish to him during this era, and after this article was published, it seemed like every black Mercedes in town started going tagless.