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The vast majority of the tolling infrastructure no longer uses plazas. In California and in Texas, the tech exists to prevent you from even noticing. That's not
by scoofy 10mo ago
The vast majority of the tolling infrastructure no longer uses plazas. In California and in Texas, the tech exists to prevent you from even noticing. That's not deployed everywhere, especially in areas where they do rate-limiting, like the Bay Bridge, where they need you to slow down and stop when the bridge traffic gets too high, but most areas you wouldn't even notice.
This is also causing problems with people using fake plates and magnetized plates. There's an entire growing industry around it. We're going to have to eventually start requiring some kind of transponder that repeats your plate number for sensors that can't be trivially covered... or you know... just raise the gas tax.
https://youtube.com/shorts/HTVBMPGvZJw https://youtube.com/shorts/HTVBMPGvZJw
https://youtube.com/shorts/lKXv_bA4lYs https://youtube.com/shorts/lKXv_bA4lYs
- themafia 10mo agoI don't know what toll plaza's you're going through. Here's my typical experience trying to get to a meeting in SFO: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZ2WkXeVPiyMU49pDRRTU-MHOgnk2v9gSYtw&s https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZ2WkX...
- scoofy 10mo agoThe Bay Bridge Toll Plaza: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rh9rcJe2nDz5Hnkv7?g_st=ic https://maps.app.goo.gl/rh9rcJe2nDz5Hnkv7?g_st=ic You’re photo doesn’t show the metering that happens in the opposite direction.
- yuliyp 10mo agoThat's the consequence of 4 freeways all (I-580, I-80, I-880, SH-24) dumping their traffic onto a bridge, and using metering lights to try and keep the bridge itself working.
- whimsicalism 10mo agosounds like you’re just upset about traffic metering, which absolutely does work and is unrelated to tolls.