First, stop buying your teenagers a car before they graduate from high school! That will stop the drunk driving and other idiotic things, for a while, and give them a chance to mature a few years, before they run into a telephone pole or something.
Second, if the author is complaining about how the traffic is snarled now ... wait till ‘he’ gets stuck in line at a tollbooth!! Stop, pay a toll, drive at high speed for a few minutes, stop, pay a toll, and do it all over again for the duration of that piece of highway.
Third. You who use ‘truck routes’ will see those to be clogged, if not already, as alternate driving routes become discovered to bypass the tolls, except for the bridges across major rivers, where it will become a mess once more.
Fourth. Your gas mileage will go to that more of ‘city’ average than ‘highway’ which will mean you will pay FOR more gas, at a HIGHER rate, just on the other side of the exiting highway toll gate, if you don’t run out of gas, first.
And if they earn the money to buy one on their own?
Is it really that important for them to be more mature when they hit a telephone pole?
Future toll roads won’t have toll booths. They will use all-electronic tolling where you’ll speed under a gantry at highway speed and either the reader will recognize your transponder and deduct your toll from a pre-paid account, or a camera will take a picture of your license plate, so that the tolling authority can bill you by mail.