• krakenx@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Everyone wants a car that blends in so that they are less of a target for cops.

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      24 days ago

      Oh, that’d be an interesting study I’d read about! Any sociology majors out there who need a thesis? lol

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      24 days ago

      Not me! I’ll take a flashy sports car over a boring beige box any day of the week.

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      24 days ago

      That’s apparently apocryphal. The rate of pullover tracks with the most common car color (currently white). Driver behavior (speeding, illegal turning, etc) and other outstanding features (lapsed registration, broken tail light) are the most common proximate causes for a pull over.