But the customer remains with Uber. And it's not like taxi drivers drive safe - I rarely take taxis, yet I once had a taxi driver who simply went through a red light after I casually remarked "this light is always red".
Really, you don't "buy" the story? Well it happened, in point of fact. Maybe telling you that said friend works at that binary analysis company in Burlington will provide enough of a connection to let you be convinced that I'm not just making up stories on the Internet for kicks?
This was at night, simple driving with no other cars around. I'm pretty sure the cop actually said that his probable cause was that the owner of the car was unlicensed. We switched places at the cop's direction (after he checked my license) and I drove the car for the rest of the trip.
The cop could have simply been done stopping, caught up to us (their standard speed is 110mph), and lingered next to us to idly run the plates. But at the time it really felt like the plate must have been automatically captured as we drove by.
I very very much doubt you'd just make something up. I'm just saying there are alternate explanations that make more sense. Happy to be wrong; still stand by my analysis. :)
The attention could have been due to racial profiling, but that would require the cop to have seen the driver in the dark at 60mph - still requiring deliberate effort in the first place. The cop could have just been passing us, which gets him closer but requires assessment from the rear to notice the in-progress DWB. But also the way he came up really didn't read as a dwell-and-pass. What are other alternate explanations?
Furthermore it's not really a matter of IF cop cars have automated license plate scanners, it's a matter of WHEN. And then if the law allows a presumption that the owner is driving, which is perhaps the only thing saving you from even more tickets in IL. :)
Alternate explanation: the cop was going to pull you over anyways, for whatever reason ("improper lane change" is a synonym for "I need to write someone a ticket now"), and, once he did so, he ran the plates like the police always do when they pull someone over... and poof! there's his ticket to write.
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But the customer remains with Uber. And it's not like taxi drivers drive safe - I rarely take taxis, yet I once had a taxi driver who simply went through a red light after I casually remarked "this light is always red".
Really, you don't "buy" the story? Well it happened, in point of fact. Maybe telling you that said friend works at that binary analysis company in Burlington will provide enough of a connection to let you be convinced that I'm not just making up stories on the Internet for kicks?
This was at night, simple driving with no other cars around. I'm pretty sure the cop actually said that his probable cause was that the owner of the car was unlicensed. We switched places at the cop's direction (after he checked my license) and I drove the car for the rest of the trip.
The cop could have simply been done stopping, caught up to us (their standard speed is 110mph), and lingered next to us to idly run the plates. But at the time it really felt like the plate must have been automatically captured as we drove by.
I very very much doubt you'd just make something up. I'm just saying there are alternate explanations that make more sense. Happy to be wrong; still stand by my analysis. :)
The attention could have been due to racial profiling, but that would require the cop to have seen the driver in the dark at 60mph - still requiring deliberate effort in the first place. The cop could have just been passing us, which gets him closer but requires assessment from the rear to notice the in-progress DWB. But also the way he came up really didn't read as a dwell-and-pass. What are other alternate explanations?
Furthermore it's not really a matter of IF cop cars have automated license plate scanners, it's a matter of WHEN. And then if the law allows a presumption that the owner is driving, which is perhaps the only thing saving you from even more tickets in IL. :)
Alternate explanation: the cop was going to pull you over anyways, for whatever reason ("improper lane change" is a synonym for "I need to write someone a ticket now"), and, once he did so, he ran the plates like the police always do when they pull someone over... and poof! there's his ticket to write.