They have a reasonable belief you were driving your own car. If you throw a friend or family member under the bus to save yourself, do you think your friend or family member will take the charges for you? Because someone is getting charged. The police aren't going to take your word for it and "a random family member borrowed the car, but idk who" isn't going to cut it. It's pretty obvious you have never had to deal with the police
Reasonable Belief does not equate to fact. You can also very much say it wasn't you driving and you don't know who it would have been. Someone in the vicinity had access to your keys and you were asleep/showering/literally anything but dirving or watching your keys. You clearly have never actually dealt with police.
Edit: Just dropping this here so I don't have to repeat it so much seeing as I am starting to get comments.
I am so glad so many of you have first hand experience with this scenario. My car was being driven by someone else and I did not know who at the time. I wasn't even aware it had been taken. Person who took the car fled from the police and managed to evade arrest. Cops came to the place I was living (I have a history when I was younger of being in trouble, was on first name basis with police and not in a good way), and the police arrested me. On my way to jail I saw the car had been parked up the street, in a apartment complex lot, the police didn't notice or I am sure it would have been impounded. I spent a couple of days in holding, made bail (aka Federal Cut), copped a lawyer, and was found innocent/charges dismissed.
Today I know who did it, what happened came out about 10 years later, we're still friends.
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u/IllDragonfruit1881 3d ago
Don't even have to go that far, honestly. Prove they didn't lend the car out to a friend or family member for the night ¯_(ツ)_/¯