Okay, call me paranoid, but I suspect you'll see a new tool in law enforcement. Your tollway automatic transponder.
I spent the last few days driving around northern Illinois, a place where it costs big bucks to drive on taxpayer funded roads. To mitigate costs, you can buy an "I-Pass" a transponder on the dashboard that automatically debits a credit card as you move along the roads. Such things also exist on the Florida Turnpike, so this is not a local phenomenon.
With automatic tolls they know where the tollbooths are and how long it should take to move between them at the legal speed limit. It would be simple for the State to use these data to interpolate a rate of travel between the two points.
For instance, if you moved between two tollbooths that are 20 miles apart at the legal limit of 60 mph, it should take 20 minutes. If you were recorded moving between the two in 15 minutes then you must have been exceeding 80 mph for all or at least part of that distance, allowing a precise way to clock your speed.
In a state with no money and people taxed to death already, they are looking for anything they can do to squeeze more revenue out of the population. Watch for this one on a highway near you.
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