Don't Have the Time to Renew Your Brake Tag? No Problem I Got You

This checks out

Seems like a high quality laser copier would make one almost undetectable.

on a side note... the term "brake tag"...

I was raised to call them "safety stickers" or "inspection stickers" (or, 'go get your car inspected', but not 'go get your brake tag').

I assumed the generation prior to me (pre-70s), going back to the first license plates and tags, called them "brake tags" because in the 1930s to 1960s maybe that is all that was really looked at (can this thing stop, or is it a death machine?)

Anyway, just a curiosity where the terms, which all mean the same, diverge in our common vernacular.

Works fine until you get pulled over or go through a DWI checkpoint

I have called them brake tags since the 1970s. Outside of Louisiana, I never hear the term brake tag. The last time I got one in LA, a guy in BR failed my car because of some emissions BS that was going to cost $600 to fix. I tore off the big orange sticker the SOB put on my windshield, drove to Madisonville and passed the inspection there.

Do locals in New Orleans still put a piece of paper with "License Applied For" in the spot where their license plate belongs? I used to love to see those because they summed up south LA pretty well.