That’s a real gentleman - sacrificing his time to help the state of Texas.
The RFID technology can read a tag in less than 3 milliseconds. In fact, the system can have multiple handshakes with the tag while its in the window of opportunity.
He went thru a toll booth lane at 220mph? Holy Carp!
0-60 in about 4 seconds, hits 100 in a couple more. Nice sounding vehicle.
This is fantastic. But can they detect whether I’ve ripped off a license plate to cover my real one and the fact I just love to wear a gorilla face mask might make it difficult to tag me unless they pull me over in person.
I’ve been seeing the “SH-130..Free until November 10” ads on television..
Since in TX, if the speed limit sign says 70, it means go 80, I guess on SH-130, people will be going 95..
I did notice when I took I-10 to Houston awhile back, that the closer you got to Houston, the more people drove the posted speed limit. In the Western Hill Country..not so much.
Well, my Suzuki 4wd could easily mange 85 km/h on the 85 mph stretch.
Now the boys all thought I’d lost my sense,
them telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said “slow down, I see spots,”
the lines on the road just looked like dots.
The beltway in Houston feels like NASCAR at times...
hmmmm.. wonder if they’ll try to automatically ticket anybody caught averaging above 85 mph between timed tollgate captures?
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.
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?
Here in El California, if you ain’t doin’ at least 75 you could be run over. Without tolls. Everywhere.
However, the video was great. Loud pipes rule.
Now if Texas would just continue with that bypass all the way to the Oklahoma border. A few years ago my wife and I drove across Texas from the west to just north of San Antonio and then got on the bypass. It was great. Then we got off the bypass north of Austin. Then it was not great. We were in a traffic jam for about fifty miles on I-35 until we got to Waco and my brother’s house. The moral of the story: stay off I-35 on Fridays during football season.
“You need me to test the toll system for you. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
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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I think I saw that guy. I flipped him off as I had to pass in in the right lane as he was going too slow in the fast lane.
Some people!
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