Why I don't want a WRX anymore (or any fast, fun car)

[Benny Profane]

I always have to smile when I see some guy in a Viper doing 55. But now the rest of us are up the creek too:

"New York State started a pilot program upstate north of Albany on the Northway
to catch speeders using the Easy Pass system. Recording devices were
installed at intervals along the highway. Once an Easy Pass equipped vehicle
passes, the device registers the account number and the time. Same is again
registered at the next 'check-point'. Based upon the distance between the
register points and the posted speed limit, the state is sending speeding
tickets in the mail to the guilty persons.

Because every driver does not have Easy Pass, the State is 'perplexed' as what
to do to impose the system state-wide. The solution has been found. Soon all
new vehicle registration stickers will have a metal strip or chip imbedded in
same. This will take the place of the Easy Pass system as stated above. When
a vehicle passes the registering device, the strip will relay all the
information.

This is not fictional. New York State contracted with VERIZON to install
the system. The system has already been installed and the entire Bronx River
Parkway in Westchester County has been 'wired' for when the new system begins.
Once the State makes the new program public and advises all motorists of the
potential for numerous speeding tickets, it will also reveal that the system
has already been installed.

Another reason that will be given for the new system is to enable the
authorities to track stolen vehicles, to trace kidnap victims, to monitor and
trace suspected criminals and terrorists, etc."

I got a warning in the mail about 2 years ago about doing 28 mph through an easy pass toll booth. The technology is there, so throw away the radar detectors. Now KMart will be a 5.5 hour trip.

[backcountry1pr]

All you need to do is drive way fast through check points so that the computers register you as an error in the system bc they assume no one could be able to cover such a large distance in such a short time period...

[iceman]

Drive fast as shit. Eat a nice leisurely lunch. Drive fast as shit again. Problem solved.

[RootSkier]

Huh.







Fuck NY.

[gh444]

back in time 23yrs......he's always watching......



on a side note, is it illegal to attach a gps device to something and watch where it goes (like lowjack type_)?

[AsheanMT]

hmmm. I don't know about New York but in Montana you are allowed to go up to 15mph above the speed limit if you are passing another vehicle which would land you a ticket with that system.

[The AD]

This is not fictional.

Yes, actually it is.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

[BLOOD SWEAT STEEL]

[Evil E]

there has to be a jammer for that shit....
for EZ passholders ... you be screwed.

[timnormandin]

K-Mart sucks.

[Odin]

Yes, actually it is.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

Don't listen to the AD... He is trying to blind you with THE TRUTH... when what we really want is.. .THE TRUTH

Big brother is out to get you man! HIDE YOUR VEGETABLES!

[Benny Profane]

Yes, actually it is.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

Don't doubt it. I mean, this was probably a paranoid email thing I received, but, as I said, the technology is there. There are scanners out there actually catching 90% of the license plates out there whizzing by at 70mph on the turnpike. That's not fiction. And every time you go through an express Easy Pass on the turnpike, your speed is recorded. Also not fiction. And, have you heard about Bloomburg's congestion pricing plan for NYC? That's no green initiative - people will still pay the extra few bucks to crowd the city with their Hummers. It's just an excuse to install a zillion scanners and electronic devices throughout Manhattan for security purposes, just like London, and we'll wind up paying for it with our little daily "tax".

[skikola]

"The solution has been found. Soon all
new vehicle registration stickers will have a metal strip or chip imbedded in
same."

Couldn't you easily destroy that metal strip or chip w/o destroying the whole registration sticker? If so, there's your solution.

[Dexter Rutecki]

Or you could easily screen it--EZ Pass gives you a little metallic envelope to stick the EZ Pass in when you don't want it to be scanned, something like that over the strip would work, I assume.
And I'm sure people will vandalize the shit out of that network if it ever happens.

[mntlion]

or you could not speed, or move out of the area?

[Dexter Rutecki]

Of all the reasons to move, that one must be pretty far down on the list. If such a plan happens, though, I wonder if people driving 66 or 67 in a 65 would get tickets.

[Tippster]

These are not the Droids you are looking for.

[Shaggy]

I wonder where the "unreasonable search" line will be drawn on this kind of stuff. Would actively querying a RFID tag built into your car be an unreasonable search? Someone's going to make that argument for sure if this ever actually happens.

[Tippster]

You know what would be really cool? If we kept ignoring the AD's post and pretended that they really are tracking our speed with RFIDs.

[gravitylover]

Of all the reasons to move, that one must be pretty far down on the list. If such a plan happens, though, I wonder if people driving 66 or 67 in a 65 would get tickets.

On the Bronx River the speed limit is 45 and I tend to move along between 70 and 75, think I'd get a ticket The limit should be higher so I treat as such

[Dexter Rutecki]

I don't think anyone is pretending that they are actually doing it, but it's not far fetched. As Benny noted, they do something like this at the toll plazas, and in England they issue speeding tickets with laser/cameras, so it seems plausible.
I heard something similar back in the 80's about the PA Turnpike doing this just using the old toll tickets you had to get, and I'm almost certain that was false. I did know of one person who believed it enough to stop at a restaurant before exiting in order to lower his theoretical average speed.

[iceclimb]

OR, get yerself a few blank RFID's and an encoder, and make yourself look like people you don't like.

They won't make that system, it's WAY too easy to game.

[gravitylover]

OR, get yerself a few blank RFID's and an encoder, and make yourself look like people you don't like.

Heheh. Endless possibilities there.

[frorider]

here's a helpful link that should clear this up:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

oh, and in cased you missed it or were too lazy to click on it the first time, here's a helpful link:

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

questions? just go to: http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ezpass.asp

[hutash]

This wouldn't even be legal in California, at least under current law. The concept is doable, but would really suck. It is even worse then red light camera here in California, or those annoying speeding camera/radars in Yurp.