Paranoid Convenience

I use the 407 Electronic Toll Highway here in Ontario.

That means that my car carries a little black box behind the mirror that signals the road when I enter and when I leave, calculating the toll, then sending me a monthly bill.

It's all ever-so-convenient.

At the bottom of the sign up papers is the disclaimer that the device will NOT be used for speed enforcement, or traffic enforcement of any kind...

I find myself staring at the device with suspicion...

It is plotting...

In a time/speed/distance calculation all you need are two things: time and distance, in order to calculate speed. So my beautifully detailed invoices are, in fact, evidence that I was doing 140km/h (that's 87 mph) on my way to work this morning.

...feeling the icy gaze of Big Brother upon me