Driver circles Manhattan in 24 minutes.

[Duke87]

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Per Google Maps, the route is 24.3 miles... so the average speed is only about 60 MPH. But when you consider the need to stop for several red lights and navigate around other traffic on the road driving normal speeds, it is a nice achievement of the "don't try this at home" variety. Normal time with no traffic is 38 minutes. (no traffic... heh)

[Brandon]

Manhattan is a small island.  Very small island.

[Alps]

I've been able to average faster than 60 mph on the Hank Hudson and FDR. Once you get past about 34th St. West Dr. starts moving pretty well, though I wouldn't be going much above 40 there just because it's the one road where things are actually enforced in NYC.

[dlainhart]

I hope he had a good time obliterating his struts.

[BamaZeus]

I think he ran one red light down by Chelsea Piers, and he certainly drove like a maniac the entire trip.  He nearly crashed into a van where the FDR goes down to 1 lane, and cut off several other cars.

[agentsteel53]

what an asshole. 

[empirestate]

Yeah, definitely seen this jerkoff or ones just like him around town. I don't understand why he keeps stopping at the red lights; he's certainly not doing any of the other things he's required to.

[Alps]

Yeah, definitely seen this jerkoff or ones just like him around town. I don't understand why he keeps stopping at the red lights; he's certainly not doing any of the other things he's required to.

West Dr. has several red light cameras.

[agentsteel53]

Yeah, definitely seen this jerkoff or ones just like him around town. I don't understand why he keeps stopping at the red lights; he's certainly not doing any of the other things he's required to.

West Dr. has several red light cameras.

at that point, he should just take off his license plates and wear a ski mask.  if he gets pulled over, he's cooked no matter what for reckless driving.  so he may as well avoid the photo enforcement.

[empirestate]

Yeah, definitely seen this jerkoff or ones just like him around town. I don't understand why he keeps stopping at the red lights; he's certainly not doing any of the other things he's required to.

West Dr. has several red light cameras.

Yes, but if that worried him, he would not have intentionally created video evidence of everything else he did illegally.

[corco]

And...he's in custody

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/police-hunt-for-driver-who-raced-around-manhattan/

[agentsteel53]

and, as is the custom with newspaper websites, don't read the comments.  lots of idiotic discussion by people who can't understand that both artificially low speed limits and reckless driving can exist in the same universe.

[BamaZeus]

Per the article, his charges include:

reckless endangerment, reckless driving, a traffic device violation, moving from a lane unsafely, following too closely and for a speed violation

What is a "traffic device violation"?  I presume that's where he ran the red light on West Drive.

[Henry]

Showoff!

[empirestate]

Per the article, his charges include:

reckless endangerment, reckless driving, a traffic device violation, moving from a lane unsafely, following too closely and for a speed violation

What is a "traffic device violation"?  I presume that's where he ran the red light on West Drive.

Probably, although it could also refer to any other sign or signal. They could maybe apply this charge to speed limit signs (it's happened to me), if they can't specifically measure his speed at a certain point but could prove overall that he was speeding.

[Duke87]

And...he's in custody

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/police-hunt-for-driver-who-raced-around-manhattan/

Dumbass clearly didn't understand the concept of logging IP addresses and how uniquely that can identify you.

[NE2]

Really, all they needed was one camera on the route that they could go through the tape of and match to other cars on the road.

[place-saint-henri]

this is suuuuuuble. Fastest I did was like 40 minutes in my 1995 Subaru Legacy LS Wagon (stock no mods) at 3 AM with no traffic.

[dlainhart]

Really, all they needed was one camera on the route that they could go through the tape of and match to other cars on the road.

Exactly. Who cares about IP addresses when that one red light camera is more than enough? You don't even need that: you just need

• footage from a camera, somewhere, that was recording that night, and
• the video itself, which is as damning as it gets

The first one can be substituted in a variety of ways, since his own video is what does him in.

[hbelkins]

For traffic violations, wouldn't the cops actually have to see them to issue a citation? I know that's one of the big complaints about red light cameras; that there's no citing officer.

I'd like to see that in real time instead of sped up 4x to see if there really was reckless driving involved. I suspect there wasn't anything much more grievous than things I see every time I'm on the interstate in Lexington.

[kkt]

Really, all they needed was one camera on the route that they could go through the tape of and match to other cars on the road.

Exactly. Who cares about IP addresses when that one red light camera is more than enough? You don't even need that: you just need

• footage from a camera, somewhere, that was recording that night, and
• the video itself, which is as damning as it gets

The first one can be substituted in a variety of ways, since his own video is what does him in.

I think a defense attorney could successfully make a case that the video could have been faked.  There are plenty of people who'd like to brag about how fast they drove, and it's not that hard to fake a video.  Think about chain of custody requirements for evidence in police custody, there's no chain of custody for youtube videos.

[Dr Frankenstein]

And...he's in custody

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/police-hunt-for-driver-who-raced-around-manhattan/

Dumbass clearly didn't understand the concept of logging IP addresses and how uniquely that can identify you.

My WAN IP can't discriminate me from the rest of my immediate family.

However, it looks a lot like a BMW Z4 hood in the video (what Japlonik claims he drives), and I don't think his entire household drives one. Or a car with a similarly shaped front end. (From this perspective, it could match a Nissan Maxima and most Infinitis.)

Anyway, my point is, I fail to see how an IP address can isolate a single person beyond reasonable doubt.

(#1000!)

[hbelkins]

Moral of this story, if you're concerned about being identified via your IP address or other technology-related giveaways.

1.) Create a throwaway email address.
2.) Create a YouTube account with said throwaway email address.
3.) Upload your video from a public wi-fi hotspot.

[agentsteel53]

I fail to see how an IP address can isolate a single person beyond reasonable doubt.

we're talking about a government attempting to regulate the internet based on squeezing as much interpretation as possible out of the words "to establish post offices and post roads".

"reasonable doubt" - or reasonable anything, really - was never a participant in this conversation.

[Duke87]

Anyway, my point is, I fail to see how an IP address can isolate a single person beyond reasonable doubt.

It doesn't, but it's enough to get a search warrant. And then when they find the video on your hard drive both edited and raw, the car in your driveway...