I had never heard of this before I saw something announcing this years adventure. It looked interesting so I gave it a try, doing 2024. I had a blast. In concept, its very similar to the Euler Project but oriented more towards programming rather than being heavily mathematical. Like Euler, the first part is typically trivial while part 2 can put the hammer down and make you think to devise an approach that can arrive at a solution in milliseconds rather than the death of the universe.
The fact that you're trying to optimize for "police serving speeding tickets to insane sovcits" over "getting flung out of the car in an accident and being crushed by the car" makes me glad you don't design cars.
Why should they exit a car over a speeding ticket? A speeding ticket is not a jail sentence and does not warrant an arrest. In fact unless a driver is actively trying to harm somebody or has an active arrest warrant there is no reason whatsoever for them to leave their car or allow cops to remove people from cars.
In some states, it is the law that officers can order you to step out of the vehicle during any valid traffic stop, regardless if it is criminal or civil.
In some states it is the law that if you are from out of state and get a speeding ticket, you either have to pay the officer in cash while you are stopped or they can take you to jail until money is posted or it is your court date.
This happened to a friend of mine from Wisconsin, visiting me in Michigan about ten years ago. I was shocked to learn this was actual Mochigan law, and could hardly believe it even after verifying it. He felt very “lucky” to have had several hundred dollars in cash to simply hand over to the officer. Michigan only just rescinded those laws in 2019: https://landline.media/michigan-laws-end-roadside-cash-payme...
It's actually great. Their tickets are (or were) cheap and not reported to insurance if paid on the spot.
Far superior to the "pretend it's more than 1% about safety and peddle it to the worst kind of people" approach that most other states take with speeding enforcement IMO.
In the sovereign citizen cases they are talking about, the typical case is that the vehicle is not registered/doesn't have plates and the driver refuses to identify themselves. They only barely lower the window if at all. They usually go back and forth a few times until the police tell them they are under arrest for multiple reasons relating to driving without a license and failure to identify.
The glass breaking happens after multiple offices have arrived for backup as the person usually gets dragged from the car screaming. The videos are extremely entertaining to watch.
The combination of unregistered vehicle, failure to prove the driver has a license, and the drivers insisting they should be allowed to drive away is absolutely a combination where arrest is legal.
You don't necessarily have to if you're just getting a speeding ticket. But in order to write a speeding ticket, you have to hand over a valid Driver's License so they know who to ticket. Exactly what should they do if the driver refuses to provide their Driver's License?
i was a euler fanatic some years ago reaching problems in the 500s albeit, skipping problems along the way. at that point, too many problems required a deeper math background than i possessed so i abandoned it. what amazed me was that others composed solutions that solved problems in mere milliseconds that brute force approaches would still be running when the universe cooled to absolute zero.
I only reached the 100s back in the day. What amazed me was that it seemed like every problem had a paper solution, when it would take any computer algorithm thousands or millions of computations to solve the same problem.
I played around with some of the easier problems, my favorite was a couple times when starting with the obvious brute force solution in code and then refactoring and simplifying it iteratively ended up getting me the paper solution.
I had a 48C that fed on those batteries. They lasted forever. I had to retire mine when the battery door broke and the batteries wouldn’t stay in. It was a great calculator from HP’s heyday.
So says the billionaire locked up in his gated mansion surrounded by armed guards and patrol dogs and who travels by armored limos and flies in private jets.
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