Although the woman stood nearly a block away, he could see that she had spotted him, was waving at him from the corner of Lexington Avenue at Seventy-first Street, and so Angelo Janiero slowed down his taxicab even though, as he did so, he was not sure whether or not he would stop. He might just slow down to let the woman think he would stop, then drive right past her as if he had not seen her, turning the corner quickly before she could get his number.