Electronic toll readers or E-Z Pass
Although the devices are sold as toll-payment devices, they are frequently used for non-toll purposes without the badge holder’s knowledge or permission. The data captured by electronic toll readers can be used to monitor traffic patterns and create a record of where you travel.
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So my son and his friend went north recently. Son provided transport, friend provided gas and tolls and took easypass out of his own vehicle to use in son’s vehicle.
Son was dinged for no ezpass. It was explained that each one is tied to the vehicle.
It is a tracker not a payer.
As we become more enslaved.
Multiple vehicles can be tied to one EZ Pass.
That certainly isn’t the case with FasTrak here in California. We have two transponders and four cars. Sometimes we forget to get a transponder when we use one of the alternative vehicles. As long as the vehicle is listed as being on a given transponder (you can list several cars on one unit), we never get tagged. I mean what do they do when the transponder occasionally fails to work? They compare the photo taken at the toll plaza where the malfunction occurred and add the crossing to our bill. When that happens often enough, we get a letter asking us to trade in the old unit for a new one. They are battery-powered and the batteries do go dead.
The other thing we do is we keep the transponders in an anti-stat bag in the console, and only expose it when it’s needed to pay a toll. The FasTrak people actually provided the bag when they advised that they were going to “help CalTrans” by tracking the movements of their customers. So much to say, they allowed everyone who wanted to, to “opt out!”
My brother moves his EZPass from his car to his truck all the time. It may be that both vehicles have to be preregistered with the DMV. (I don’t know the answer)
This is not a wrong thing nor a gov’t conspiracy. If it were not so, thousands of cars would have their windshields smashed and EZPasses stolen.
My wife had the same situation years ago, though I believe they changed that in recent years here in NJ; she can bring it in another car and it will be fine.
One incident I remember after EZ Pass was launched was the assurance that it wouldn’t be used for law enforcement; at its most basic it could determine your average speed between toll plazas/readers exceeded the speed limit. A couple of years in, a restaurant owner was killed here in north Jersey and the police admitted they caught the perps by tracking the EZ Pass of the owner’s stolen car (which the killers apparently didn’t realize was in it).
Thankfully I have little use for EZ Pass; I rarely use toll roads.