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> I'm surprised that they don't issue speeding tickets based on the time that EZ-PASS sees your transponder in various locations. They don't want to do this.
by tristor 4y ago
> I'm surprised that they don't issue speeding tickets based on the time that EZ-PASS sees your transponder in various locations.
They don't want to do this. Toll systems are set up as private corporations (often with government money) so that they can operate for-profit, and are a tacit "Speeding Pass". E.g. usually there is no enforcement in toll lanes / toll roads for speed limits compared to standard roads. They do this very specifically as an enticement for people to pay in order to get to their destination faster, that is the entire USP (unique selling proposition) to a toll road.
If they started using toll data to automatically enforce speed limits, it would immediately making tolling impossible/unsustainable, and nobody would use transponder systems. There's already issues with people cheating tolls using various methods to obscure their license plate for systems which support license plate tolling.