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I have no aversion to government handouts. I do, however, have a huge aversion to dragnet surveillance and the resultant systematic elimination of privacy. Poli

I have no aversion to government handouts. I do, however, have a huge aversion to dragnet surveillance and the resultant systematic elimination of privacy. Police collection of license plate data and California's use of ID.me both seem like clear examples of enabling the latter.

perl4ever 5y ago
I find it annoying that with license plate recognition everywhere, that on the toll roads in NY, which have eliminated human attended toll booths, they do read your license plate in order to bill you if necessary, but they charge extra if you don't have the traditional transponder. It's nuts. The transponders cost money, they set up the infrastructure for billing by plates, so they should discourage the former, not the latter. Sunk cost, etc. However, it is outsourced to a private company and I just bet they have screwy incentives.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago
  Same issue in WA. Some recent improvements (HOV lanes, bridge rebuild) resulted in some of the only toll roads in the entire state. Same billing structure with a surcharge to do it by plates. Some (all?) of the cameras have very distracting bright lights coming off of them at night. They incorrectly bill motorcycles all the time, forcing riders to call in and wait on hold to talk to a person and have the charges reversed. Carpools can't even use the HOV lane for free anymore (!!!) without purchasing a transponder and setting it to indicate such. Unbeknownst to us, a transponder broke and was deducting from the account balance when set to indicate carpool for months. It was discovered upon finally managing to empty the entire account, at which point they refused to reverse the charges because it went back too far. 0/10, would not recommend whoever designed and implemented this pile of shit. I suspect screwy incentives exist in this case as well.

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I have no aversion to government handouts. I do, however, have a huge aversion to dragnet surveillance and the resultant systematic elimination of privacy. Poli

by d110af5ccf 5y ago

perl4ever 5y ago
I find it annoying that with license plate recognition everywhere, that on the toll roads in NY, which have eliminated human attended toll booths, they do read your license plate in order to bill you if necessary, but they charge extra if you don't have the traditional transponder. It's nuts. The transponders cost money, they set up the infrastructure for billing by plates, so they should discourage the former, not the latter. Sunk cost, etc. However, it is outsourced to a private company and I just bet they have screwy incentives.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago
  Same issue in WA. Some recent improvements (HOV lanes, bridge rebuild) resulted in some of the only toll roads in the entire state. Same billing structure with a surcharge to do it by plates. Some (all?) of the cameras have very distracting bright lights coming off of them at night. They incorrectly bill motorcycles all the time, forcing riders to call in and wait on hold to talk to a person and have the charges reversed. Carpools can't even use the HOV lane for free anymore (!!!) without purchasing a transponder and setting it to indicate such. Unbeknownst to us, a transponder broke and was deducting from the account balance when set to indicate carpool for months. It was discovered upon finally managing to empty the entire account, at which point they refused to reverse the charges because it went back too far. 0/10, would not recommend whoever designed and implemented this pile of shit. I suspect screwy incentives exist in this case as well.