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Often, particularly close to major cities, the police will ask you for photo ID, but as long as you have one with you (such as a passport) there shouldn't be a problem. Most of the time they will be friendly when you come up clean, sometimes even driving you to a better spot.
In some states, like [[New Jersey]] and [[New York State]], on the East Coast and [[Nevada]] and [[Arizona]] in the West, hitchhiking is illegal – though in most it's not. Even if it's not actually illegal, the police can ticket you for ''loitering'' or ''vagrancy''. Corrrection: In most states there are laws against hitchhiking that are possible to be circumnavigated. Most often, the laws state that the hitchhiker may not "solicit a ride" in any way, i.e. showing a sign or a thumb to traffic. If the police pass and see a hitchhiker walking or sitting by the side of the road without soliciting in any way, they may still stop to check IDs, but they technically have no reason to pull you over. As a result, the best result is to not use a sign or your thumb whenever an oncoming car looks like a police cruiser. The laws are enforced because of "traffic safety" reasons mostly, but police rarely give tickets to hitchhikers... they just check IDs for warrants whenever possible.
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