According to their Twitter it’s still ongoing: https://twitter.com/droogie1xp/status/1471653205733871619

Sounds a lot like 'undefined behaviour', certainly unexpected at least.

I guess somewhere along the line a passed 'null' value is getting converted to a string for plate lookup.

More discussion here in 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 (471 comments)