Posted on 10/25/2012 12:58:48 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Texas opened the fastest highway in the nation this weekend, but before a single driver got onto the road, Texan John Hennessey was cruising down the freeway at more than 200 mph.
Hennessey, who specializes in making some of the fastest cars, asked lawmakers if he could test whether the TxTag toll tag system could capture license plates and tags at the new high speeds, according to Jalopnik.
Texas officials gave him the thumbs up to test the system on the open road.
Hennessey topped out his car at 220 mph, and the tag system grabbed his tag and license plate at 180 mph.
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;>)... the begging continues.
The beltway in Houston feels like NASCAR at times...
The toll readers on the main lanes are just overhead reader / scanners for the TXTAG with cameras to capture the license plate. The off ramp booths are just wide enough to let 18 wheelers and delivery trucks off the road. 35 MPH is max on those.
hmmmm.. wonder if they’ll try to automatically ticket anybody caught averaging above 85 mph between timed tollgate captures?
Toll roads in Florida don't accept them...seems unlikely Texas would.
I don't think so. You need a TxTag: http://www.txtag.org/.
However, that works everywhere in Texas. The Dallas and Houston tolltag authorities have their own tolltag, but they also work everywhere in Texas.
You can still drive on the tollroads. It will just snap a picture of your license plate and mail a bill to the address on your registration. However, it's about 50% more, at least where I drive.
I don't know if they send the bill for just one or two tolls.
Hey, I've got one of those too!
That's a bummer! Not to worry Gator, I'll let you drive mine.....(when I can afford one).
What a conundrum, you can afford one but can't, while I can't afford one but can.......life isn't fair.
I guess it was just my bad luck to get pulled over in Garland for doing 75.
It is a 2013 Cruze....can do 140mph.
What's the point?
It can capture the plate in milliseconds...but they wont send you the bill until its already late with a fine attached.
No, didn’t see it. I can’t imagine. Hope they went quickly...
I don’t get out much on interstates or toll roads, anymore. I just remember those toll booth chutes from many years ago. Try to stay on rural or side roads, now. :)
Hennessey was the driver? I wonder if Hennessey has cleaned up his act. A few years back he was sued over and over in Harris county for all sorts of things related to not doing things to peoples cars that he agreed to make faster.
You can google it....
Sometimes I’m just so HOTDAMN proud. Observe this, U.N.
Quote on the Hennessey Performance web site for this car, Cadillac CTS-V 610 to 1250 HP Available and top speed of up to 242mph.
Or maybe this 2013 Hennessey Venom GT @1244 HP as "The World's most powerful Roadster"
Gee I wonder what their gas mileage is?
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