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They did have spotters along the way: > In all, they managed to rustle up 18 lookouts along the run. These were people who drove hundreds of miles in many case

They did have spotters along the way: > In all, they managed to rustle up 18 lookouts along the run. These were people who drove hundreds of miles in many cases just to scout the road ahead of the fast-moving AMG for a stretch and let the team know of any police activity or other hazards ahead. And, of course, they were familiar with that idea from the classic movie "Smokey and the Bandit" as referenced in the article, so they probably had a good reason for not doing it that way. I'd guess that hiring a caravan of people willing to get jail time, lose their licenses, and having their expensive, fast cars seized would be really, really expensive and would only keep a few officers busy for a few minutes. Plus, in hindsight, they were successful without it. However, I find the downvotes on your comment interesting having read the "Help me ask 'Why you didn't just'" article posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675717 You met several of the criteria for reducing the insult factor: Your comment is impersonal, forward-looking, and not condescending, without being passive-agressive. But you were still downvoted.

mikepurvis 7y ago
Alex Roy's book (which is excellent) has a bunch of details of his attempts and the eventual Roy/Maher success. Same as this one, it was basically two nights and one day. They had an IR camera in the car to see the heat from idling cop cruisers hanging out behind overpasses and such, and then for the daytime section there was a small airplane that flew ahead of them for a stretch and scouted out the route.
sgfdsagfsagf 7y ago
Yeah, but he also said that what they accomplished is awesome. The HN crown mostly (not all of us) frowns on this type of thing, even while still finding the news interesting.
- nickthemagicman 7y ago
  What is the issue with saying it's awesome? Is it the lack of objectivity? Or the lack of professionalism?
  - sgfdsagfsagf 7y ago
    Neither. A lot of vocal people in HN really don't like motor vehicles and that people can have with them. Motor-bikes, -cars, -boats, -whatever. A large part of the HN crowd doesn't like them. HN also has healthy minority who are motor-heads, so it balances out.
nickthemagicman 7y ago
I was seriously hoping for people to just post most more ideas. That was my goal.

mikepurvis 7y ago

Alex Roy's book (which is excellent) has a bunch of details of his attempts and the eventual Roy/Maher success. Same as this one, it was basically two nights and one day. They had an IR camera in the car to see the heat from idling cop cruisers hanging out behind overpasses and such, and then for the daytime section there was a small airplane that flew ahead of them for a stretch and scouted out the route.

sgfdsagfsagf 7y ago

Yeah, but he also said that what they accomplished is awesome. The HN crown mostly (not all of us) frowns on this type of thing, even while still finding the news interesting.

nickthemagicman 7y ago
What is the issue with saying it's awesome? Is it the lack of objectivity? Or the lack of professionalism?
- sgfdsagfsagf 7y ago
  Neither. A lot of vocal people in HN really don't like motor vehicles and that people can have with them. Motor-bikes, -cars, -boats, -whatever. A large part of the HN crowd doesn't like them. HN also has healthy minority who are motor-heads, so it balances out.

nickthemagicman 7y ago

I was seriously hoping for people to just post most more ideas. That was my goal.