He found them by the hundreds in the thick volumes of the Florida vehicle code: rarely enforced laws against driving with burned-out license plate lights, out-of-kilter headlights, obscured tags, and windshield cracks. State codes bulge with such niggling prohibitions, some dating from the days of the horseless carriage. “‘The vehicle code gives me fifteen hundred reasons to pull you over,’ one CHP [California Highway Patrol] officer told me.”
