Can You Get A Speeding Ticket From Your E-ZPass? | Mt Kisco Real Estate
Q: Is it true that the New York State Thruway Authority is catching speeders with E-ZPass? Please let me know so I can get rid of the damn thing.—Bill Marcella, New Rochelle
A: Not only can they track your speed, give you a ticket, and fine you, the system also has a way to determine if you’re a registered Republican, in which case the current administration will have you detained and most probably waterboarded. Kidding, kidding.
The theory behind this fear is that the E-ZPass system can determine how fast a car on the Thruway outfitted with its device has traveled by measuring the distance and time it took to get from its point of entry to its point of exit. The E-ZPass system could do the calculation and bust your speeding butt without having to pull you over and listen to your weak sob story—Big Brother at its finest.
Some folks even claim they’ve received such tickets from E-ZPass in the mail.
Well, Illuminati fans, I’m sorry to report that the Thruway Authority as Orwellian villain theory just doesn’t hold up. Yeah, I know, it all has to be true because you read it in an email, right? No, it isn’t true, and the New York State Thruway Authority has heard the rumor so many times they even issued a statement saying that “the authority and state police do not use E-ZPass to enforce vehicle and traffic law.” The Thruway Authority also pointed out that it doesn’t even have the authority to issue speeding tickets, since state law requires an observation or radar by a police officer to charge someone with speeding. But what about those letters that people have claimed to have received? Those are caution letters for having traveled too fast through the toll area.
A: Not only can they track your speed, give you a ticket, and fine you, the system also has a way to determine if you’re a registered Republican, in which case the current administration will have you detained and most probably waterboarded. Kidding, kidding.
The theory behind this fear is that the E-ZPass system can determine how fast a car on the Thruway outfitted with its device has traveled by measuring the distance and time it took to get from its point of entry to its point of exit. The E-ZPass system could do the calculation and bust your speeding butt without having to pull you over and listen to your weak sob story—Big Brother at its finest.
Some folks even claim they’ve received such tickets from E-ZPass in the mail.
Well, Illuminati fans, I’m sorry to report that the Thruway Authority as Orwellian villain theory just doesn’t hold up. Yeah, I know, it all has to be true because you read it in an email, right? No, it isn’t true, and the New York State Thruway Authority has heard the rumor so many times they even issued a statement saying that “the authority and state police do not use E-ZPass to enforce vehicle and traffic law.” The Thruway Authority also pointed out that it doesn’t even have the authority to issue speeding tickets, since state law requires an observation or radar by a police officer to charge someone with speeding. But what about those letters that people have claimed to have received? Those are caution letters for having traveled too fast through the toll area.
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