The Gauteng E-tolling Thread

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http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/content.php/7865-R290-million-for-Nkandla-road-report

About R290 million of taxpayers' money was spent on a road connecting President Jacob Zuma's hometown Nkandla to neighbouring town Kranskop, The Star reported on Wednesday.

This was revealed on Tuesday by Transport Minister Dipuo Peters in a Parliamentary reply to a question posed by the Inkatha Freedom Party.

"The provincial department of transport spent about R290m for the construction of the specified (Nkandla to Kranskop) road," Peters was quoted as saying.

This came as concerns over delays in the implementation of the Moloto Rail Corridor were mounting, The Star reported.

The project was announced by Zuma three years ago. It would link Pretoria, Mpumalanga and Sekhukhune in Limpopo. Last month, a bus accident on Moloto road near Kwaggafontein, Mpumalanga left 30 people dead.

On Friday the Mail&Guardian published a leaked provisional report on Nkandla by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela titled "Opulence on a Grand Scale".

Excerpts from the unfinished report, found that some of upgrades to the president's home, which amounted to more than R200m, were unjustifiable and came at "enormous cost" to taxpayers.

The upgrades included a swimming pool, outdoor amphitheatre, marquee area and two helipads.
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So this is where the e-toll money is going.
 
Compton_effect said:
Now we're talking. As a developer though - I would have a red flag for every time a numberplate and tag don't match.
Mind you - the system was written by Gijima. I've fixed enough of their messes to know that is not the case here.
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Indeed
I currently manage three developers... and I often fight with them to install checks and balances against boundary cases. I therefore seriously DOUBT this will be the case here.
 
Or, if it ever comes down to it, buy an e-tag and swap with your mates. Chaos.
 
Just walked past the etoll shop in cresta. Queue was all the way to the escalator. Seems the resistance has ended before it even started
 
rakabos3 said:
Just walked past the etoll shop in cresta. Queue was all the way to the escalator. Seems the resistance has ended before it even started
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Of course it has... they're all cowards!
 
Flanders said:
Or, if it ever comes down to it, buy an e-tag and swap with your mates. Chaos.
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Build a little bit of electronics to switch in a different tag at every gantry... Now that would totally cock the database up!

Also test whether this wireless protocol they use has provision for data collisions... put about 30 e-tags in your car... and then claim the system doesn't work.
 
I would assume there is very little in the way of decent code behind this system...

It won't handle data collisions, or anything that is ever so slightly outside of the "ordinary". I would guess the dev house were provided a spec doc that was so naive as to be funny.
 
Okay, we all pool the e-tags together - one guy drives with all of them in his car. 7000 e-tags at once = DDOS attack. Everyone in JHB leaves for work after this guy...
 
The RF part of this system is made by Kapsch... I presume that they, being Austrians, would have put some forethought into data collisions.

From my experience with other RFID systems I developed, there is a practical limit to how many collisions you can handle... My guessimation is that 20 or more tags in your car ought to do it.
 
Koosi said:
The RF part of this system is made by Kapsch... I presume that they, being Austrians, would have put some forethought into data collisions.

From my experience with other RFID systems I developed, there is a practical limit to how many collisions you can handle... My guessimation is that 20 or more tags in your car ought to do it.
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No valid tag read means they use anpr and you pay standard rate just by the way.
 
Anyone actually have access to EMP/Jammer that will knock out gantries when you go through (car would stall too but just turn off and roll till through)
 
Sinbad said:
No valid tag read means they use anpr and you pay standard rate just by the way.
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Allows you a perfectly reasonable dispute, as you can request camera footage to prove innocence...
 
koeksGHT said:
Anyone actually have access to EMP/Jammer that will knock out gantries when you go through (car would stall too but just turn off and roll till through)
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That will likely ruin your car's PCN/ECU and you'd be stuck on the highway.
It is not too difficult to do... I would like to see what happens when lightning klaps a gantry
 
Perhaps buy one of those old 70's rustbuckets off gumtree as a martyr? When did ECU's actually get introduced anyway?
 
Debeer165 said:
Perhaps buy one of those old 70's rustbuckets off gumtree as a martyr? When did ECU's actually get introduced anyway?
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When electronic fuel injection became standard...
Yes a Nissan 1400 bakkie will be best for this.
 
Tander said:
Cars as far back as 1979 used ECUs.
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Yes
My father worked on cars all his life.. I recall how he bitched and moaned in the early 1980's when he had to basically be re-trained to work on the new cars.
 
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