I'm assuming you're talking about Fast Lane, the Massachusetts name for the EZ Pass toll transponders used along the eastern seaboard states.
True -- but he's not the only one who conflates the two names. I make that mistake fairly often (having gone through EZ Pass tolls almost as often as Fast Lane ones).
Each lane at every toll plaza that reads Fast Lane transponders has it's own reader
True, but note that that is *not* how it works down in New Jersey. Highways that have really been redesigned properly for the system (such as the Garden State) just record the thing as you drive, more or less normally, at highway speeds, and not necessarily precisely in-lane. The system doesn't actually require the slow and separated cars that we have here: that's just the way it got retrofitted into the old toll booths.
So that implies that the system can cope with at least a somewhat messier environment if you design it right.
Hadn't known about the battery issue. Dumb design, indeed...
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Date: 2006-09-08 03:07 pm (UTC)True -- but he's not the only one who conflates the two names. I make that mistake fairly often (having gone through EZ Pass tolls almost as often as Fast Lane ones).
Each lane at every toll plaza that reads Fast Lane transponders has it's own reader
True, but note that that is *not* how it works down in New Jersey. Highways that have really been redesigned properly for the system (such as the Garden State) just record the thing as you drive, more or less normally, at highway speeds, and not necessarily precisely in-lane. The system doesn't actually require the slow and separated cars that we have here: that's just the way it got retrofitted into the old toll booths.
So that implies that the system can cope with at least a somewhat messier environment if you design it right.
Hadn't known about the battery issue. Dumb design, indeed...