Florida turnpike and Sunpass - LAC

[Pedro Faria]

There is the same thing here in the northern States, NJ, NY, DE, MD, etc.
that issue of giving out tickets if your "time" is too fast, did come up, 
but due to it being a 3rd party company, its a violation of privacy for them 
to release that information to the authorities.

As far as pictures, it takes pictures every time a car passes the toll gate, 
and you should but dont need to have the tag in your car. I had an instance 
that the tag was not working and i drove thru a couple of tolls, it was 
still deducted because the car and license plate was registered.

Lastly if you are driving a car thats not your own, you can still use your 
pass on that vehicle.

I loved it when they started installing the high speed pass 55mph

eventhough in good old Europe this thing has been around for the last 10 yrs 
or so, my dad passes the toll gate at almost 60mph, and they dont issue 
tickets, their speeds are of 40mph or so.

HTH
Pedro

>From: Mike Arman <armanmik at earthlink.net>
>To: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Florida turnpike and Sunpass - LAC
>Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:29:39 -0500
>
>
>
>Not much Audi content here, although if I get one of these things it is 
>going into my Audi.
>
>Florida DOT is selling a device called "Sunpass" which is a toll-booth 
>transponder. It goes on the inside of the windshield (or velcro to the 
>visor) and is pre-loaded with $25 or so, and it pays your tolls for you as 
>you go through the toll booths ("slow to 25mph" - right - and get run down 
>from behind!)
>
>Anyway, my question is this - according to urban legend (or in this case, 
>rural legend), if you get onto the Florida turnpike at say, exit X, and get 
>off at exit Y, the tickets are time-stamped and you'll get a speeding 
>ticket later in the mail if it develops you've made it from X to Y at over 
>the posted speed limit. This doesn't make sense superficially because the 
>Turnpike card doesn't have your license plate on it, but I suppose the toll 
>computer could do the calculation and trigger a camera as you depart the 
>toll plaza. Remember, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't 
>out to get you . . .
>
>Now with Sunpass, the device is registered to YOUR CAR, so there is a tie 
>between who paid the tolls and when, and the Sunpass computer does record 
>when and where the tolls were paid (I checked this with Sunpass and they 
>confirmed it) - so it would be pretty trivial for them to do a basic 
>time-speed-distance calculation and determine that you were going mach 3 
>instead of 55, and in this case they CAN tie the speed infraction to a 
>specific vehicle.
>
>The munchkin at customer service *assured* me that they would *never* do 
>that . . . but she didn't agree to pay the fine if I get caught (assuming 
>they are using the information in this way - which is going to be VERY 
>obvious to them real soon now, if it isn't already).
>
>Solutions -
>
>drive slow(er)
>
>don't get the Sunpass
>
>get the Sunpass but don't use it if I'm going a bit too fast (who, me?)
>
>take the airplane instead, go as fast as I damn well please (the V8Q is 
>faster than my airplane, by the way)
>
>Best Regards,
>Mike Arman
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