What is the test for the automobile exception to the search warrant requirement?

Petitioner first suggests the automobile exception should not apply here because his vehicle was not "readily mobile." Presumably, petitioner's point is that the vehicle was not mobile because there was no one else to drive the vehicle away after he was placed under arrest. The contention is meritless. Ready mobility is not the sole basis for the exception to the warrant requirement. (California v. Carney (1985) 471 U.S. 386, 390. ) The exception is also based upon a lesser expectation of privacy in one's vehicle as opposed to one's home. (Id. at p. 391.) Further, the application of the automobile exception "is not contingent upon whether the particular automobile could actually be moved at the time of the search." (People v. Superior Court (Overland), supra, 203 Cal.App.3d at p. 1118.)