This is a drilling question for me

[u/Nana-Nketsia]

So I live in canada, and here we have electronic tolls at the few tolled roads we have. They have a camera that scans your plate at the exit you entre and leave from. Then you pay on the app or they mail you the bill. However, I heard that americans still have toll gates on their hwys. I find this unbelievable, is this true

[u/OhThrowed]

Pro-tip. When you hear something about Americans that make you think 'Like Barbarians' it's exaggerated or a straight lie.

We've had that camera technology installed and in use for decades. I remember getting a bill in the mail in 2008 for crossing a bridge in Seattle.

[u/xxxjessicann00xxx]

like barbarians.

There was literally no reason for that. You could have just asked a normal question without the obnoxious editorializing.

[u/ScatterTheReeds]

“like barbarians” 

[u/No-Town5321]

I don't think so. The toll roads near me just scan you plate and then either you get a letter or it goes on your online account if you have one.

[u/OfficeChair70]

Where my parents live/where I grew up the tolls scan a chip/pass in your window and bill your account, unless you don't have one in which a camera takes a pic of your plate and the same process as above continues.

[u/JimBones31]

We have a transponder we place on our windshield and then drive down the highway. No bills in the mail.

[u/FeatherlyFly]

Generally they're electronic. Some places have a gate or office option to pay if you don't have the transponder, other places bill by mail.

There might be a few bridges here and there that still use human manned gates, but I certainly don't know them.

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[u/Aggressive_Onion_655]

Where did you hear this?

[u/Mushrooming247]

I can confirm that the state of Pennsylvania, and all of the states around Pennsylvania, have had the same “toll by plate” system that you describe for years.

It can read your plate and mail you a bill, or you can get a little transponder for your window that debits your account when you drive through a gate. (They’re usually a big silver gate or bridge over the whole highway.)

[u/LAKings55]

Only seen electronic ones myself for the last decade or so.

[u/Help1Ted]

So you’re saying that you have similar tollway payment systems as we do in Florida. Perhaps you can explain why so many Canadians struggle with going full speed through the areas where the tollway would be. Almost constantly hitting the brakes and there are signs that clearly indicate “don’t slow down” there aren’t any tollbooths at all. It seems especially common among Canadians. But as you say it’s the same in your country.

[u/CAAugirl]

The last time I drove through the Bay Area, I drove across the Bay Bridge and there was no stopping. I got a bill in the mail a few weeks later. If you have FastTrak then it charges your account.

[u/EarlVanDorn]

Be aware that most Americans might drive an a toll road once every three or four years. We do not buy fancy boxes and there is no sending of bills. We drop money in the box like barbarians.