Lol Again the crux of my argument is totally ignored.
My car is not a vehicle and I am not a driver.
As I posted in my original post, the California vehicle code defines a vehicle as a device.
It also defines a person as a person... or a business or corporation etc.
What is a device?
A device is a mechanical invention that is newly discovered that embraces the concept of non obviousness.
What is an invention?
A patentable device!
WELL, my car that I built is not patentable, nor is it newly discovered.
So, my car is not a device, and therefore not a vehicle.
Unless I register it as a vehicle which is required by law in order to drive.
But its a good thing I do not drive.
I travel.
No, you are ignoring the FACT that the CVC discusses a MOTOR VEHICLE, to avoid confusion regarding what the code applies to. Your DISHONEST rambling and aversion of that fact, conflation of right and privilege, and avoidance of what the regluatory statutes state is the comedy here.
You have provided a fact sheet that could come from anywhere. I have provided a direct quotes from the CVC (
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) and provides no mention of the applicability you've misquoted. To be clear, this is the definition for "driver" provided in the code:
A “driver” is a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. The term “driver” does not include the tillerman or other person who, in an auxiliary capacity, assists the driver in the steering or operation of any articulated firefighting apparatus.
"Is in actual physical control of a vehicle." That would be you.
Here is the definition for vehicle in the CVC:
A “vehicle” is a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
To focus narrowly upon the word "device" fails to address the quantification of said appliance within the context of the code. Device, in the application above refers to what "may be propelled, moved, drawn upon a highway" with the only exceptions being the two given above. To even attempt the dishonesty you are spouting means either you do not understand the word "context" or you have no grasp of how a sentence is structured. To proclaim that "device" can only mean what you have given avoids reality:
From the Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
: something devised or contrived: such as
a (1) : plan, procedure, technique
a marketing device
mnemonic devices
(2) : a scheme to deceive : stratagem, trick
b : something fanciful, elaborate, or intricate in design
c : something (such as a figure of speech) in a literary work designed to achieve a particular artistic effect
irony and other literary devices
a plot device
d archaic : masque, spectacle
e : a conventional stage practice or means (such as a stage whisper) used to achieve a particular dramatic effect
f : a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function
i.e., smartphones and other electronic devices
or a hidden recording device
Of the definitions given, (f) appears to be what we are looking for. But let's not stop there, what does the source you claim to pull from say about it?
An Invention or contrivance; any result of desigu; as iu the phrase”gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing ofan unlawful game of chance or hazard. State v. Blackstoue, 115 Mo. 424, 22 S. W. 370.Also, a plan or project; a scheme to trick or deceive; a stratagem or artifice; as in thelaws relating to fraud and cheating. State v. Smith, 82 Minn. 342, 85 N. W. 12. Also anemblem, pictorial representation, or distinguishing mark or sign of any kind; as in thelaws prohibiting the marking of ballots used in public elections with “any device.” Baxterv. Ellis, 111 N. C. 124, 15 S. E. 938, 17 L. R. A. 382; Owens v. State, 04 Tex. 509;Steele v. Calhoun, 61 Miss. 556.In a statute against gaming devices, this term is to be understood as meaningsomething formed by design, a contrivance, an invention. It is to be distinguished from”substitute,” which means something put in the place of another tiling, or used insteadof something else. Henderson v. State, 59 Ala. 91.In patent law. A plan or contrivance, or an application, adjustment, shaping, or combinationof materials or members, for the purpose of accomplishing a particular resultor serving a particular use, chiefly by mechanical means and usually simple in characteror not highly complex, but involving the exercise of the Inventive faculty.
Hmmm, where's that rubbish you posted at the start? This is also from Black's Law Dictionary...
From Webster's Law Dictionary
The definition of a device is a tool or technique used to do a task.
The task in this case is to convey person and/or property, the tool would be the vehicle.
As I stated prior, by all means, be an ignorant fool and tempt fate with the CHP. Post the results on YouTube; I hope you have an account that can be monetized because it will likely be hilarious and might even cover the cost of your tow and incarceration.