Win At Life said:
richardag said:
bmks270 said:
This does not require vehicle monitoring, only roadway monitoring. Toll systems are quite sophisticated these days and they can know your distance traveled along major highways by plate readers, you don't need a device on your car. Believe me, I got a barrage of toll bills in the mail with my toll locations and photos of my plates when my toll pass credit card had an error.
Much of the infrastructure is already in place for roadway monitoring and toll by plate. It also preserves more privacy than vehicle monitoring. It's still somewhat invasive as to a vehicles whereabouts, but not nearly as invasive as vehicle monitoring.
There was even a game show where people were given a head start and were tracked down by the shows experts. The group that evaded for a given length of time were the winners. How the experts tracked people was an eye opener for me.
A couple years ago, a semi-retired guy I knew made interstate hot shot deliveries for a little money and to get away from the wife for a time. When he was in Florida, someone on his Facebook joked about him bringing drugs back. He was stopped in Louisiana for absolutely no traffic violation whatsoever and spent 3 hours on the side of the road while they completely strip-searched his truck. They let him go without so much as a warning. Not a single traffic violation to cause the stop and search. he knew his rights, but he also knew it would be a bigger pain in the ass to fight them, so he allowed it. You will never convince him they were not tipped off by his friend's Facebook post and license plate trackers.
That happened to a friend of mine in the early 1990s before GPS was in common use.
He was from the RGV, and his truck was registered at his parents' house. He was doing a post doc research project with USACE in Vicksburg. He had a roommate doing the same. Roommate had been travelling and flew into Jackson, so my friend had to pick him up at the airport. Flight was late, and they leave Jackson to head back to Vicksburg after midnight. State trooper follows them, runs the plate to see the truck is from McAllen. Two unrelated males in a pickup with one suitcase in the back. They were there for a while.
The cop told them 9 of 10 vehicles they pull over on that highway from South Texas are running drugs.
It happens more than you think.
