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*   "E-Z Pass Living Up To Its Name", By Jane Gross, NYT, 3/25/1997
*  
*   570,000 people have decided to use the new E-Z Pass system for commuting
*   tolls. Lanes are being switched over to accept only the E-Z Pass.
*  
*   Under a five-state, 10-agency consortium agreement, E-Z Pass will work
*   from Buffalo to Baltimore. [NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE]
*  
*   Users receive a minutely itemized statement each month on their trips.
*  
*   The E-Z Pass is a transponder people put in their windshield.
*  
*   Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about
*   commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena.

People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular
discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass.

Wow.

It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able to track cars.

Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and
install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis.

They wouldn't do that, right?

:   "Above the Law", by


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