That doesn’t stop it from holding the scans in memory until a stray open network gives it bandwidth.

Or from the devices making their own ad-hoc network until the world wide web is reached. Not that that’s happening in this, specific case, but the former example stands.

Zipper merging also always seems to assume that there are no trucks/buses/trailers and that everyone isn’t tailgating so closely that they can read the Vin# of the car in front of them…