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You'll pull my E-Z pass out of my cold dead hands.

This is the first piece of vehicle telematics I added when I got a new car. When I was stuck in a traffic jam at an off-ramp near Albany, I realized how I'd make it better for myself and other drivers if I got one.

It's particularly good that E-Z Pass uses the same technology as most other states in the Northeast so you can drive the Mass Pike and out to Maine or the other way to Ohio.




I have been a user of EZ pass, and it is wonderful from that standpoint. From a security design standpoint, it's a matter of a pointy haired boss reasoning through "out of sight, out of mind."


It even works in the midwest! I drove to upstate New York from Chicago without paying a single old-fashioned toll a few years ago.


Do they work through Illinois? I recall them having their own system for some unknown reason, but I don't know if it is compatible.


Illinois has IPass. IPass definitely works at tolls taking EZPass; I don't know if the reverse is true.


The reverse is true.




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