Because it would have looked mighty akward for my girl to be sitting in the passenger seat with a laptop and a shinty silver cord running from it to my foot area.
Cops are usually a-holes here in CA, but he was cool with me so it was my lucky day. You live in NY, you don't understand how it is here...

A had her yank the plug and throw it on the floor with her purse on top.

 

The driver for my serial to USB cable had become corrupt. I had to uninstall and reinstall the software for it.

 

Oh i see. Well, glad you got it figured out. A lot of things seem to be getting corrupted these days.

 

So you got pulled over already?

 

Yeah 15 minutes after I got my tune... It's got to be a record or something?!?
The cop let me go with a warning.

 

^^ So lucky your car is stock with zero gauges....

I would have been face down on the floor cuffed...