New York State started a pilot program upstate north of Albany on
>>> the Northway to catch speeders using the Easy Pass system.
>>> Recordingdevices 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.
Since it looks like it was an email forward, and nothing forwarded in an email more then three times is ever true, I doubt it.
Chances are you’d be hearing about this one a legitmate news source.
About a year ago I used my EZ Pass statement to figure out I averaged 83mph between the transit rd exit and the 490 exit. Never heard anything from the state about it other than the standard toll charge on the statement.