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Lots of half-truths here.
1: the first thing every cop says at a stop is "turn the engine off and put your key on the dash" if you haven't done that by the time he gets to your window
2: if you're pulled over, it's already too late to run. Cruisers have had dash cams for decades and your tag has already been photographed.
3: improper use of "statistically" but the best autos are quicker than sticks. That's why squad cars use them and theyre probably better than yours
4: you can probably talk yourself out of a ticket for speeding, GL talking yourself out of an evading charge.
Tl;dr cops suck. Nobody likes them. You can (and should) fight them in the courts and the voting booth, but you will lose if you try to do it on the road.
I've been pulled over many times and have never experienced this.
Cameras are definitely the main problem. To get away with any crime in the modern age, you probably need to plan for being caught on camera. Especially if you end up in front of a cop.
Also, high speed chases are much more likely to end in the shooting death of the suspect. Which is why more progressive communities tend to bar cops from high speed chases.
For a brief time in the Seattle area you could actually run from cops and they couldn't do shit besides go the speed limit and watch you drive off.
Those days are over now and cops are finally enforcing other laws... weird how that works.
In the world of push to start, do cops actually ask you to put your keys on the dash?
I've been pulled over quite a bit and have never had a cop ask me to put my keys on the dash.
It's never happened to me either. Maybe he's experiencing some weird regional thing.
Got pulled over in an EV. Not so much as an on/off switch. Cop didn’t ask me to do anything.
"KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND PUT THIS GROUNDING STRAP AROUND YOUR WRIST!"
Hmmm. Hard to say. A cop pulled me over for "Operating a motor vehicle without her phone number". Eventually, she agreed to only give me a DWS (Driving While Sexy). It feels like an abuse of power, but as she reminds me all the time, she's the one with the gun...