Well I have to confess - as a convienence, this setup works pretty well. In GA you can optionally purchase your ‘cruise card’ to cruise through toll booths at full speed, in special lanes...it gets scanned when you drive through and works like a debit card that you can reload.
It’s not mandatory, so you can wait in line and just pay the toll like everyone else if you don’t want to buy the cruise card. They don’t force you to carry a transponder if you don’t use the card.
What I’d have a BIG problem with is if they were making it mandatory statewide to have the transponder, just to drive on ANY roads...toll or not.
Opens the door for movement tracking, taxing your mileage, taxing you for ‘excessive travel’ etc...
Sounds like a pretty good project for a Federal Bureaucracy somewhere...