Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just have to take an Uber.
Then you choose between a company tracking you or a city tracking you...
True. Perhaps the last best case for taking a taxi.
Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
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#24Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
How good are those cameras, though? I've crossed from Marin at least 8 times now, each time with the "cash taker" lanes having no staff. I assumed it would be like in Houston, where you just get billed via mail, or can call and pay. Nobody I've called is aware of me owing anything on my plate, though, and I've never got anything in the mail.
Maybe I did my plates wrong... I also never received the ticket the angry SFO cop promised I would get for not picking up my friend fast enough.
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#25Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
Fastrak is shipped with a mylar bag that prevents scanning so you can have privacy on-demand. Also, Caltrans routinely scans Fastrak transponders silently in non-toll areas to gauge traffic flow.
they photoscan your license plate regardless.
i have one fastrak box and 4 vehicles. just registered all of them online, now i no longer need the box. this way they're also catching toll offenders.
golden gate bridge is fully automated now, scans every vehicle, no opt out lane.
Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
#26Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
How good are those cameras, though? I've crossed from Marin at least 8 times now, each time with the "cash taker" lanes having no staff. I assumed it would be like in Houston, where you just get billed via mail, or can call and pay. Nobody I've called is aware of me owing anything on my plate, though, and I've never got anything in the mail. Maybe I did my plates wrong... I also never received the ticket the angry SF…
they have 100% success rate with my vehicles, one of them a motorcycle with very dirty plates.
Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
#27Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
And inside Marin, the town of Tiburon does this as well - stoplight cameras at every entry/exit point.
I'll throw this in too. If you drive an older vechicle don't enter Tiburon after nightfall. They will pull you over for no reason.
The camera was installed because Tiburon had some weird murders. There all involved wealthy residents. In each case the their was no theft. In each case, it appeared the deceased appeared to know the killer.
I understand the frustration of the little police force. I don't understand harassing poor people.
On a side note, the camera was installed before it was routine to have videos on your home. Since their are so many cameras throughout the city now, and on all those million dollar plus homes; take the town's camera down.
Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
#28Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
How good are those cameras, though? I've crossed from Marin at least 8 times now, each time with the "cash taker" lanes having no staff. I assumed it would be like in Houston, where you just get billed via mail, or can call and pay. Nobody I've called is aware of me owing anything on my plate, though, and I've never got anything in the mail. Maybe I did my plates wrong... I also never received the ticket the angry SF…
are those parking enforcement people at SFO cops? I always thought they were hired hands or something. They do wear shiny badges to look like cops though.
While the police have their faults, they usually control things much better, I feel. The dropoff area at SFO is a tragedy.
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#29Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
Just don't put your plates on. It's just a fixit ticket in CA, for a while.
Re: Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
#30Fastrak already does this, using any toll crossing or paid express lane triggers it. Good luck entering SF from Marin without getting scanned.
Fastrak is shipped with a mylar bag that prevents scanning so you can have privacy on-demand. Also, Caltrans routinely scans Fastrak transponders silently in non-toll areas to gauge traffic flow.
"Also, Caltrans routinely scans Fastrak transponders silently in non-toll areas to gauge traffic flow."
Wow really? Where exactly? The trackers are not that small and I doubt they are all over 280 or 101 otherwise I would have noticed them by now..