so my buddy posted this on myspace… im not sure how true it is…but it wouldnt surprise me one bit considering the constant movement towards a police state our country has been going through
Subject: EZPass & Vehicle Registration Info
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.
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If a chip was installed in a piece of paper, umm, remove it. Illegal with possible fines, but then again so is speeding. The worst thruway speeders are out-of-staters/canucks anyway.
If they did that you would still have to account for people stopping at rest areas and in that case if it took them an hour to get somewhere you would have to site them for imprudent speed on the low side.
If they start giving out tickets to people using ezpass and happen to be speeding, wouldnt people stop using ezpass? Thats one huge reason id never use ezpass, the possability that they can do such a thing, and have in the past…
i know in other states they also have to get a picture of you, in the drivers seat, for red light tickets…Article doesn’t mention anything about photos.
I was always nervous on the R1 with the ezpass, getting from a to b in half the time it should have taken. They could easily tell the average speed, which for some trips, I’m sure would have been over the limit. Always though I’d get a ticket in the mail.
Absolutely untrue. There are too many circumstances that could come into play, therefore throwing the time system off and voiding the speeding tickets.
I know on one really fast trip to Syracuse I couldn’t wait to get my ezpass statement to see what my average speed was. Came out to something like 83.x mph average. Never heard a thing from NYS about it.
EZ Pass will get you busted in divorce court though. So if you’re sneaking off down the 90 to see the mistress while telling the wife you’re working late you better keep the EZ Pass in that little blocker bag it came with.