• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Higher taxes or having to stop and queue every couple of kilometers?

    Higher taxes obviously, my time is worth a lot more.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      huh, where do you live? tolls are all automatic at full speed now. and have been so for well over a decade.

      last time i had to stop for toll booth was probably 2010, and even back then they already had a automated lane, but it was 20mph, not 65+

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      They don’t do it like that where I live anymore. There are transponders you can get to pay for tolls automatically or they send you a bill based on your license plate with overhead traffic cameras and receivers that don’t affect traffic in any way. They’ve been doing this for over a decade, well before modern license plate readers. It’s obviously a little grosser now , knowing how these types of cameras are oppressive, but at this point, I think they’re at the toll booths anyway, so the only thing you’re saving by going for old fashioned toll booths is a dangerous, physically harmful job.