Originally Posted by
bizzz111
don't forget the tinfoil hat angle of tolled roads. The government will be able to track your movements 24/7 if all the roads are tolled.
Doesn't sound like a big deal, until you hear of private citizens using the data for civil lawsuits (divorces). Your employer will be able to track you at all times. Your insurance company will be able to track you at all times and adjust your rates accordingly.
I also find it rather ironic that people who are against tolled roads don't seem to have a problem with red light or speeding cameras. Those are just another form of toll, and cities make damn sure you get nicked (usually by lowering yellow light timings).
It's all designed to nickel and dime you to death. If people actually added up all the day to day little taxes that go by unnoticed (or were forced to pay them twice a year like property taxes), they would be ****ting bricks.
+1
I don't want an RFID transponder on my car, I don't want APNR technologies that read license plates and record the locations where they've been seen, and I don't like red light cameras because they're clearly about getting more money out of people, not actually making anything safer. The yellow lights are so damn short at the intersections where they're installed, and speed limit signs sometimes are nowhere near to intersections, for any driver who doesn't know the area well, they're just going to have to guess.
Privatizing things like our nations road infastructure is a hideously stupid idea.