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End of the Road - Why We Stopped Stopping for Tolls
In this episode Alex and Kelly pull over to the side of the road to examine one of the most visible victims of the digital age: the toll booth collector. Once a fixture of the American commute—the gatekeeper of the interstate who traded small talk for quarters—the human in the booth is rapidly becoming a ghost.
We explore the "pointlessness" of the manual role in an era where stopping a 4,000-pound vehicle to hand over a piece of paper is not just a bottleneck, but a major source of carbon emissions and highway accidents.
Join us as we explore the death of the toll plaza and what it tells us…
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