We won’t go into details here, but know that you do have rights if you are pulled over; cops cannot search your car for zero reason. (And if you are arrested, you get Miranda warnings—telling you your rights—which the Supreme Court mandated in a case applying the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. If the cops don’t do that, prosecutors can’t use your statements against you at trial.)17 But the bar to searching your car is not as high as the Fourth Amendment’s plain language might otherwise suggest.
