You also have to factor in, the wider FOV the lens have the nearer and smaller are the distance where you actually stand a chance of capturing a plate.
With the large easy to read plates in the EU, a car only have to be 4 - 5 car lengths ahead of you and then you can not read the plate even if both cars are stopped and lighting are perfect.
It is a unfortunate side effect of wide angle lenses that they make things appear further away than they actually are.
To have a natural feeling for distance in the footage you will have to use a 6 - 12 mm lens, but then you have a terrible narrow FOV, so a camera like that can not be used alone.
Myself i run a 12 MM "zoom" camera beside my front camera, this mean that further out ahead where i can no longer read plates on my SG9663DC i can read them on my zoom camera instead.
Again it is mostly a thing for us dashcam addicts.
In the video from my 12 mm lens camera i can read plates about a car length further out than my tired old eyes can, so it is a little supernatural.
But you can see the difference here between my zoom camera and a regular wide angle camera.
The 2 videos mixed together are only cut in hight, the width are the normal the 2 lenses have.