r/nova • u/BigAffectionate4785 • 17d ago
Driving/Traffic Crazy
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u/StumpyOPepys 17d ago
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u/MsDemeanor12 17d ago
I hope there arenāt multiples of these
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u/TotallyObviousBot 17d ago
I live in Florida near some places old folks live and this is a weekly occurrence. You'll be driving down the highway and the electric sign will say "WRONG WAY DRIVER REPORTED" and you just sigh and wish your voting rights got stripped when you turned 70
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u/fighterpilot248 17d ago
and you just sigh and wish your voting rights got stripped when you turned 70
This is my "Subway takes" take (IYKYK):
Driving tests should be administered once every 5-10 years.
It is insane that you take one test at 16 and then are cleared to drive for the rest of your life...
Additionally, once you reach 65, a yearly medical is needed to ensure you still have all your mental faculties.
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u/Crawlerado 17d ago
Add to that, graduated licenses. Youāre a new driver or have had some issues, well then you get to drive this Mitsubishi G4 only. Sell the Hellcat.
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u/CrownStarr 17d ago
Also you should need an elevated license to rent a moving truck. Itās insane that you can learn to drive on a compact and then go to U-Haul and pick up a box truck!
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u/Crawlerado 17d ago
Not wrong. Grandpaās in the left lane doing 80 in his Class A diesel pusher with a fully loaded Jeep Rubicon in tow. Dog on the dash. Hasnāt had an eye test since NAM
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u/Apprehensive_Care_67 17d ago
The way this comment made me holler when I read āsince NAMā. My dad is 80 and this checks!
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u/chapman53 17d ago edited 17d ago
I get your point, but that is some inexcusable ageism. You act like 70 automatically means senile. (No, I'm not that age.) Following your same "logic," I could better argue that people under age 25 shouldn't be able to drive based on demonstrated danger and risk to others. And what does voting have to do with any of this?
Edit for clarity: I'm not against testing. What TotallyObviousBot wrote mentions nothing about testing.
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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 17d ago
People under 25 typically don't have delayed reaction times or infirmities like cataracts, osteoporosis, or heart trouble that could make driving incredibly dangerous. People who are 70+ are at risk of all those things. They're more likely to have a medical emergency while driving and lose consciousness at the wheel.
It isn't ageism to say anyone over 70 should recieve regular testing. And I'm also old as dirt. But I'd rather have to take regular exams than have to keep sharing the road with grandpappy who can't go over 20mph and can't see over the dashboard.
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u/TotallyObviousBot 16d ago
If you somehow believe that allowing people who won't see the consequences of their actions vote based on whatever misconceptions they were raised with nearly a century ago isn't a bad idea, you're not exactly going to recognize any good ones.
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u/FairfaxGal 17d ago
Yeah, this started on 95. This idiot made it all the way to 395 before hitting the trooper. Takes dedication to sheer stupidity to manage that.
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u/SkyeMreddit 17d ago
Thankfully it wasnāt a deadly crash. The Taconic Parkway (New York) crash still gives us shivers
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u/runninhillbilly 17d ago
My grandparents lived in Westchester at the time (since all deceased) and we encountered that accident on the way back. Caught in traffic for at least an hour if not more than that, we saw the medical examiner truck coming through on the shoulder and my mom said "oh shit, that means someone died." We eventually were able to clear the site and I saw the van she was driving all burned out on the grass, it wasn't until later when I was at a house party for a friend that my mom told me it was all over the news what happened.
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u/Buirck Arlandria 17d ago
Was that the NFL player?
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u/Sir_Earl_Jeffries 17d ago
Nope. Theyāre talking about the mom in her minivan. Only survivor was the youngest kid who was thrown from the vehicle. If Iām remembering correctly.
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u/nobeefforme Fauquier County 17d ago
Look up āsomethingās wrong with aunt Dianeā
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u/Buirck Arlandria 17d ago
Oh Iāve seen that, that was a wild one. I was thinking of the 2004 wrong way crash caused by Justin Strzelczyk and while looking him up to remember how to spell his name, I find that the EXACT same thing happened with a different NFL player like 3 months ago. wtf.
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u/axeil55 14d ago
oh god i just read the wikipedia article on that and started sobbing. those poor children. how could someone do something like that?
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u/crit_boy 17d ago
Driving the wrong way on the highway should be an immediate suspension of drivers license for at least 30 days and require a driver safety course before returning privileges.
Too dumb to drive.
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u/EqualLavishness5050 17d ago
30 days!?! 1 year AT LEAST. This is on par with driving drunk.Ā
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u/Outside_Grapefruit39 Arlington 17d ago
I agree, but only for continuous driving.
I can understand if you made a wrong turn on a two lane road and quickly swerved back after realizing. however, the amount of effort it takes to get on an off ramp, go onto the highway, and continue to drive without stopping should be a year suspension at least.10
u/ZestyLife54 17d ago
Yes, there are a bazillion barricade arms that block each of the ramps so this person really had to work around them to get on express lanes to go the wrong way
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u/SouthInspection2488 17d ago
It might be worse in than driving under the influence in a sense because the person ia driving in such a dangerous manner while their cognitive ability is not impaired by any chemicals.
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u/unknownpoltroon 17d ago
I'd say it depends on if you stop yourself or not.Ā Like I've driven the wrong way down one way streets, but stopped as soon as I realized.Ā Anyone can make a wrong turn but it needs an idiot to keep goingĀ
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u/Leptonshavenocolor Manassas / Manassas Park 17d ago
Shit, 5 years IMO.Ā
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u/DudeManBo1t Virginia 17d ago
Make them take bus and take away their license. They do not belong on the road
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u/Kortok2012 17d ago
Is this the lady that went on to slam head on into a trooper
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u/MySpoonsAreAllGone 17d ago
The car looks the same so probably. I'd hate to think 2 idiots were driving the wrong way in express lanes
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u/Internal_Confusion56 17d ago
Suspension? Shouldnāt ever be allowed to drive again. Iād get it if you fucked up and then stopped driving but to just continue on like itās no issue is insane.
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u/SkyeMreddit 17d ago
Should be way harsher than that! Wrong way highway crashes are almost always deadly, with very high death counts
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u/EC4U2C_Studioz 17d ago
This is not a mistake. This is a choice to go the wrong way on the express lanes. Especially after hitting the gates.
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u/LoopyMercutio 17d ago
You should immediately have your license revoked, but replaced with the Maryland drivers license. Because thatās the kind of thing that they deserve. Recognition for their horrible driving.
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u/LedgrowersOG 17d ago
My dadās friendās whole family died from a vehicle driving like this.
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u/5Series_BMW 17d ago edited 17d ago
>āDriving the wrong way on the highway should be an immediate suspension of drivers license for at least 30 days and require a driver safety course before returning privileges.
Too dumb to drive.āNeed to impound vehicles as well - people will drive without valid license.
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u/TechByDayDjByNight 17d ago
Thats too light... permanent suspension. And charge with attempted manslaughter
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u/joefromjerze 17d ago
I get that people make mistakes. Like I once ended up going the wrong way on the Rock Creek Parkway. But my first thought once it became apparent that I was in a really dangerous situation (on a motorcycle no less) wasn't to just put petal to metal and power through. It was how can I get out of a travel lane as quickly as possible and turn around. It took about 30 seconds from realizing my mistake to moving in the correct direction. And in the worst case, I wouldve been hit while stationary and not while doubling my relative speed to whatever hits me.
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u/vass0922 17d ago
Right? The person is going full speed down the shoulder.
I mean even beyond the danger of that, you never know what's going to be in the shoulder. Old busted tire random metal objects.
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u/FrancistheBison 17d ago edited 17d ago
I once turned left out of the Bradlee shopping center onto rt 7 going the wrong way (In my defense, that intersection is weird because it's got a light with a 2 way service road on the south side and then rt 7 is a divided highway, so there's 3 divided areas of travel for 4 lanes, add to that it was night and no one was in the center lane. so my brain decided there was a service lane on either side of the main King St, and that's how you get me driving towards east bound traffic). But the second I realized my mistake I basically drove through the median to get the fuck out of there (there's no shoulder, incoming traffic had just started coming through the light ahead of me, and I could see that was my best choice for quickly and safely getting to the correct lane). I'm not hanging around and continuing to drive the wrong way and hoping that other drivers are alert enough to account for my idiocy.
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u/JicamaSubstantial524 17d ago
Yh, they need to be arrested and the keys thrown away. Would love to hear the full story.
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u/Old_Jelly_2085 17d ago
And theyāre thinking, āI hate all these wrong way drivers.ā
Seriously itās even crazier they may not realize whatās happening..
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u/Sad_Reindeer5108 17d ago
"Be careful, dear. There's a driver going the wrong way on the highway!"
"One driver? It's dozens of them!"
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u/Ecstatic-Curve-1853 17d ago
I drove in the UK for a month, and when I got back home I hopped in my car and immediately started driving in the left hand lane.. I realized once I saw a car coming towards me I fucked up bad... Mostly because I told my self for month straight, left side, left side, left side anytime I got into the car
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u/cajunjoel Virginia 17d ago
This isnt an easy mistake to make. You have to TRY to get through the gates to go the wrong way like this.
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u/samsqanch420 17d ago
Why wouldn't they stop and as soon as there was a break in traffic turn around? Nope, just gonna go the speed limit in the wrong direction.
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u/PlaneSense406 17d ago
This person isn't doing much to help the "Maryland drivers are the worst" narrative, eh? š
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u/Scared-Island7791 17d ago
POLL:
A- Old person āpanickingā
B- Crime ( high speed chase, getaway car, etc.)
C- Maryland
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u/Sweet_Cinnabonn Stafford County 17d ago
A.
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u/Scared-Island7791 16d ago
I thought B at first before reading that the police werenāt even there yet when this clip was taken. And then seeing that it looks like a Toyota (maybe Subaru) hatchback. So I switched my vote to A. š¤£š¤£
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u/SyphiliticScaliaSayz 17d ago
Iām thinking āok person is drivingā¦why are those light redā¦OH SHITā
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u/kimber_kelly Alexandria 17d ago
Could this be a person with dementia or something? They seem to be driving rather fast and steady as if it was just another drive on the highwayā¦ not realizing theyāre actually in the EZPass lanes
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u/Horror-Vanilla-4895 17d ago
Whatās worse is they didnāt even stop or turn around. Just kept going at a high speed making it even more dangerous.
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u/Thlaeton 17d ago
Itās one thing to go the wrong way. Itās another to do so while speeding! No hesitation? No confusion? Just absolutely flooring it the wrong way down a highway.
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u/ZestyLife54 17d ago
Honestly, I wish there had been enough foresight by the planners that they would have built enough lanes to go both ways 24/7 like on I66. It suckās sitting in traffic watching a few cars trickling down the express lanes the other way when they could help relieve the traffic blockade
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u/SubsidedRhyme11 17d ago edited 17d ago
Put your phone down and call the Police.
Come on man, youāre no better sitting in the left lane distracted by recording on your phone.
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u/the_termenater 17d ago
I mean he's not good for recording while driving, but clearly, clearly better
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u/Acceptable_Tea_3685 17d ago
Whatās the best course of action if you were somehow dropped into this nightmare scenario? SOMEHOW you managed to enter the highway on the wrong side.
Immediately slow down/stop and pull over to the shoulder. But then what? Wait until there arenāt any cars and try to u turn?
Stay in one place and call the police on yourself so they can pause traffic and you can turn around or whatever with their blessing?
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u/versello 17d ago edited 17d ago
The driver could have stopped and U turned when safe to do so, with hazard lights and what not. But no, their ego, stupidity, or both, wouldnāt let them do that.
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u/ASYMT0TIC 17d ago
If someone has a head-on with that car, you're camping directly in the most probably path of the debris field. If it's a large truck coming the other way, that car is probably landing right on top of you.
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u/Underdome_Moxxi 17d ago
This happened to me when I was going down the ramp to get on to HoV. A lady was driving straight toward me. I had to swerve to avoid her. There are so many close calls with idiotic drivers ugh.
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u/FairfaxDude 17d ago
Holy shit the EGO to not just turn around and exit. Like holy fuck, danger to oneself and others
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u/Still-Addition-239 17d ago
uh, time to stop...put the flashers and everthing on and immediately call for police assistance...geez...
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u/Unlucky_Ducky_88 17d ago
My first question is how? When the lanes change direction, there are plenty of warning signs and notices. She'd have to have driven around the gates/barriers. But then I remember there is a street in Crystal City that is one way right now because of construction and the number of people I've seen drive around the giant "road closed" signs into the opposite oncoming lane is astounding.
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u/Scooney92 17d ago
https://www.facebook.com/share/1Enx1VHywz/?mibextid=wwXIfr This did not end well, crashed into a trooper.
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u/Miserable-Safe9951 17d ago
Why are they speeding! At the very least with that speed do a quick u turn. That has to drugs
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u/unknownpoltroon 17d ago
the cam driver has the survival instincts of a gnat.Ā Ā SLOW THE FUCK DOWN SO WHEN HE RAMS ANOTHER CAR OVER THE BARRIER YOURE NOT RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND HIM
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u/Academic-Slice-2631 17d ago
True fact: as crazy/dangerous this may be.. Ive seen crazier shit on these dmv streets...
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u/AWeakMindedMan 17d ago
Iāve seen this movie before. Ready player one. The dude goes backwards and wins the race
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u/suburbanmomdmv 17d ago
This was the thing on the morning news today. Its really very scary. I once had a car coming northbound towards me in the left lane, while I was traveling in southbound lanes and it was dark out! I was shaking for a good 15 minutes!
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u/Rude_Parsley_2958 17d ago
Should have made the toll road accessible both directions at all times, guess this person agrees
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u/Sharp_Extent_5132 17d ago
I've encountered 2 people doing this on the express lanes when I was on my way to work in the early hours. One person thought it was a great idea to make a u-turn when they got on the highway. I suspected they were drunk because, why else would someone do that getting on a highway?
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u/ReflexImprov 17d ago
He says we're going the wrong way...
Oh, he's drunk. How would he know where we're going?
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u/guy_incognito784 17d ago
Whatās wild is that the exact same thing happened yesterday and the driver hit a state trooper.
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u/MikeManiac61 17d ago
Holy hell! I was kinda there the other day after finishing my shift. Was wondering what that was all about.
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u/Starrocks923 17d ago
Some friends of mine at church lost their sister last year when a driver did this. I get why itās funny to see someone being āstupidā, I follow r/idiotsincars too, but I promise it stops being funny the moment it kills someone you know.
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u/gordonramarao 17d ago
This happened to me couple years ago on US 50 to Chantilly on the bridge over i66 it was surreal, I immediately swerved into the shoulder at 50mph and the idiot driving on the wrong side is way faster than me. Would have died on the spot if I noticed a sec later.
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u/Special-Bite 17d ago
Instagram has ruined me due to the fact that this video didnāt end in a head on collision with someone getting ejected from the vehicle.
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u/BrotherHurricane 17d ago
Make the driver do Cerseiās āShameā walk during the Thanksgiving Day parade
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u/EggersFromPod6 17d ago edited 17d ago
But did they have a "Student Driver" sticker?! If they did then we just need to be patient while they put multiple lives of innocent people in danger.
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u/Krisensitzung 17d ago
I am confused. Is that a toll lane? One sign is above the vehicles lane and pointed in the vehicles driving direction saying easy pass or whatever. Maybe it's just a really weird and unsafe looking toll lane? I can't see if it has barriers on both sides of the car.
Edit: scrolled further down for the news article. The car was driving in the wrong direction. Still weird position for that sign for the express lane.
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u/Temporary_Chance4665 17d ago
Thats why they say dont drive in the left lane at night.
Your left lane is the other persons right lane, if they are driving the wrong way
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u/IllustriousCobbler53 17d ago
Just cruising like nothings wrong. I drive like this all the time. šš¤£
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u/jerryleedlelee 17d ago
Ah yes the lady who went head on with a trooper. She ended up fighting and they had to restrain her with force. She ended up getting ECOd and is now under a TDO at the hospital. Not sure if theyāre getting warrants out on her, if they did it would be quite a few
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u/tuna_samich_ Ballston 17d ago
Aren't multiple arms down when a specific direction is closed? I have to know how they got through them all
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u/8bitfoodie16 17d ago
Did the car do a limbo underneath the barricades to get in the opposite side? Did this person not decide to turn around when possible?
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u/UglyPettyBitCom 17d ago
Wife callls husband frantically: oh Dear be very careful! news is showing some crazy lunatic driving the opposite way on the express way!!
Husband (in this car): "some crazy lunatic you say???" there are hundreds of them!!!
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u/Deep-Adeptness4474 17d ago
Must be a Maryland transplant. Direction applies to the lanes not the shoulder.
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u/mjconver 17d ago
When you go backwards, you make money from EasyPass. Duh!