Clever Driver outguns police, drives across country in 31 Hours

A year ago, Alex Roy underwent an effort to break a record for a cross country drive in 32 Hours 7 minutes. He used a modified BMW M5 filled to the brink with all sorts of technological gadretry and used a spotter plane to avoid police detection.

Averaging over 90mph the entire way, he managed to complete the trip in 31 hours. Of course, given that refueling time is 0mph time that needs to made up (not to mention time spent below 90mph) he had to average well over that at portions

This is an amazing feat, although reactions are mixed. Some people claim that what he did was reckless, some argue it was harmless, some think it a waste of gas.

Im reminded of a recent article about the police being outgunned. Maybe we need to pass an "Anti-Assault Car" law so that cars with too much horsepower or too many stickers or antenna (in keeping with the spirit of the assault weapon law).

As far as im concerned though, more power to you if you can get away with it.

Interesting and fun/ny. But thanks for not putting it on the newswire.

Perfect.

If only more people would follow his lead.

yeah, because your Newswire articles are so much more relevant than this.

Harumph!


As for the guy in the story, put me firmly in the "reckless asshole" camp. If he'd injured someone I shudder to think at the liability.

In the Gumball Rally, a driver hit and killed an elderly couple in Belgium. Guess who picked that driver up and attempted to get him out of the country before the cops caught on (and got arrested at the border)?

? The same dude?

That would make him an abetter of homicide, right? No death penalty in Belgium, IIRC. Ah well.

Hm. So, this guy spent a shitload of money and time and creativity on doing something totally futile and illegal. What a wanker.

The reason they weren't charged with homicide IIRC is that the couple had run a stoplight or something to that effect.

Alex Roy, the driver in this story

It's nice to be best at something, even if it entails committing multiple felonies across state lines.

Also, he is sticking it to police, and their revenue generating speed limits (as the outrageously low speed limits were set to save gas, and later, to increase revenue) by using technology. He realized he would need complete technological dominance over the police, and managed it.

Well it is a stupid waste of gas and totally illegal but...so what.

And people say my 140 mile drive to Chicago can't be done in 2hrs.

It's not technological dominance over the cops. The cops use what they are given and trained to use. The only thing they really do with the technology is interface with it. Very few cops actually design the equipment they use.

It's technical dominance over the large companies that claim to be the best. You should get that right. The cops don't design and implement technology, they just use it.

That and cops don't set the speed limit. They enforce it. At no point does a cop say "Hey i decided the speed limit should be 45 here, i don't care what that state speed limit sign says" The government sets the speed limit. So if anything he wasn't "sticking it to the cops" he was "sticking it to the government"

Please direct your prepubescent angst in the right direction.

I would be far more impressed if he did it in a 1979 6 liter Trans Am, without the tech tools. All you really need is an instrument to jam radio frequencies and radar and to stay out of plain sight. It's not that impressive. Seeing as that illegal aliens drive for thousands of miles with 60 of them packed into a 1978 Ford Panel van, while evading police and border patrol, i don't see what the big deal is about this guy.

Maybe if he added a few jumps over barns, and drove across semi trailers at some point. Maybe a droopy looking dog somewhere in there too, that would of been cool. Maybe add Sally Field too, to make the drive that more aggravating. Or if the trans am transformed into a robot and that was his personal protector. THAT would be cool!

Oh. Well in that case, the hit and run is forgiven and they deserved to die.

Nope. None of this excuses anything. This guy is a fucking asshole and people who are cheerleading this sort of thing are ridiculous.

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Dude, my 87 mile drive to Chicago can't be done in 2 hours sometimes. I went to a Pink Party in Boystown and spent a good thirty minutes stuck in traffic at around the 190, Tri-state, Northwest Tollway, and Kennedy interchange. If I was driving to the Loop, it would have easily taken me 2.5-3 hours, based on the slow crawl that traffic was still at when I said "fuck it" and got off at Cumberland, parked the car, and took the Blue Line to Clark, the Brown Line to Fullerton, and the Red Line to Addison.

So, what direction are you approaching the City from, and how do you do it?

Let's hope he never needs the police to do anything for him, then.

And, like I said, "a shitload of money and time and creativity". I would have hoped he'd have done something positive with it.

I think people who repost the original story should be spanked. Hard.

Wow, that's...

Oh.

i really cant stand people who speed, tailgate, pass on the right, and generally drive aggressively on public roads. its so much more dangerous than people think and no one has the right to endanger others like that. douche bags.