Virginia Refunds 8,000 Alleged Tollbooth Violators

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Think technology is good for tracking speeders and red light runners?

How about this story out of our own Fairfax County:

Seems the tollbooths on the Dulles Toll road malfunctioned over several months. Drivers reported paying the toll, but not getting a green light. Since many of the tollbooths are unmanned, there was no one to fix the error. Meanwhile, drivers backed up at the tollbooth start honking.

What do you do? You drive through, right?

That's what drivers were doing, only to be hit with $25.00 tickets in the mail

Seems like everything from faulty softwared to chewing gum was fouling the system and the toolroad didn't have a good system for detecting patterns which would suggest that it was the machines, not the drivers, who were "cheating."

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