Won’t that make one lane each way country roads insufferable if the device makes passing slowpokes impossible?
This is for those convicted of reckless speeding, not for everyone.
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We were in Texas for our grandson’s high school graduation. His dad (42), a contractor, just bought a truck for work. He was driving home Sunday night when a cop pulled him over for a broken taillight. He couldn’t find the insurance card quickly, so the cop took him to jail. We spent all Memorial Day morning bailing him out.
Who gets pulled over, let alone jailed, for a broken taillight?!? 
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What race is he?
Asking for a friend.
Fun fact: Texas sucks.
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He’s white. We learned that the cop was new. The streets were largely deserted, so we guessed that the cop was probably just looking for something to do. 
Strange. Must like paperwork.
Back in 1979( we lived in Texas back then), we decided to drive to California to visit my family. When we got to Lubbock, we were pulled over by the police for a broken tail light. He said it had to be fixed before we could continue with our travels. He didn’t put us in jail, but we had to stay overnight in Lubbock to have it fixed. So I guess it was sort of a jail.
There are only two things good in Texas: Texas BBQ and Willie Nelson.
No word yet if weapon was improvised or a Musk/Boring Company device.
From the NYDN article:
With Canada sending you forest fire smoke and Africa its dust, it could be an irritating summer for Americans. Had no idea desert dust could travel this far.
I remember ash from Mount Pinatubo and radioactive particles from Chernobyl.
What a wonderful planet we inhabit.
I fondly recall shoveling about 1.5 inches of ashes after Mount St. Helen’s eruption . . . for 3 days.
We pay attention to it religiously during hurricane season. It stalled storm development for about 6 weeks of the season last year.
I understand volcanic ash circulating the globe as it initially gets blown so high into the atmosphere and is carried by high altitude winds. It is desert dust’s range that puzzles me as it is initiated at ground level.
If particulates from wildfire smoke, initiated at ground level, can be picked up by higher-altitude winds, why not dust from a haboob?
(Saharan dust does get an assist with a temperature inversion / the density of moist marine air keeping the drier, dusty air aloft longer.)
Wildfire smoke doesn’t travel nearly as far as the Saharan sand.
I believe it is considered “dust.” And there is a lot of it, it seems.
google AI
What is the size of the particles in Sahara dust?
The authors report in [18] that most of the particles, with respect to volume size distribution, can be found in the 2–20 µm diameter range. This is not surprising, because the strong ascending hot air currents formed by the high temperature of the sand lifted bigger particles into the atmosphere.
Canadian wildfire smoke has been observed in Europe. Siberian wildfire smoke has been observed in western Canada and CONUS.
(I actually have a recollection of Siberian wildfire smoke being observed here in New England, but I couldn’t quickly confirm that.)