California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ulloa, F074239 (Cal. App. 2018):
while officer checked the driver's license and the car registration was proper]; see United States v. Shabazz (5th Cir. 1993) 993 F.2d 431, 435-437 [car stopped for speeding; officers could question driver about his travels]; People v. Bell (1996) 43 Cal.App.4th 754, 768 [unintrusive and nonaccusatory questions about where driver was coming from and what he had been doing are permissible].)
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