I never speed through the ez-pass booths. First, I want to make sure the thing reads my machine. Second, the ones that have tolls are narrow, and some have gates and I wouldn’t want to hit the gate if it didn’t go up. And third, some are around other manned toll booths, and sometimes those people walk around and I wouldn’t want to hit them. And fourth, you never know when someone else is going to slam on their brakes at the ez-pass toll because they need to pay.
What I worry about is the toll roads ticketing you because you make it to where you exit too quickly from the time you entered.
“What I worry about is the toll roads ticketing you because you make it to where you exit too quickly from the time you entered.”
Here in Northern California the Toll folks came out and said that “in order to better understand traffic patterns,” they were going to start “tracking” each RFID transponder “anonymously” to “gather data.” But they sent out antistat bags for each transponder and said that if you didn’t want yours tracked, you could keep it in the bag and only take it out when you needed to pay a toll. So that’s what we do. The other benefit is that it isn’t plastered on the windshield where it’s just another invitation to a thief. You can get AS bags at any electronics store.
What I am interested in knowing about is any “semi-legal means” of obscuring your license place from the readers. I have seen sprays which are applied to the surface of the plate that are supposed to blind the cameras (which use strobe lights to facilitate image capture), but allow your plate to be readily seen by the naked eye. Anybody out there know anything?
Some years ago one of the time stamps at one of the entrances/exits that I used was incorrect, enough so that my speed worked out to 140MPH in one direction and 35MPH in the other. I joked that when the state needed the money badly enough, I expected a large box of tickets, half for speeding and the other half for obstructing traffic, would show up in the mail.
The nongated lanes in Virginia were tested past 100 mph. For the gated ones, a former colleague determined that 30 mph was the max speed to have the gate go up in time. I tried 30 but would always go slower (chickened out). One time I entered about 25 in my pickup and it didn't read my pass. The gate hit the front of hood and flew out of the way mangled. I stopped a little ways after, but nobody was around so I kept going.