May 14, 2008
Drive-Through Tolls Creep Higher Faster [60-Second Science]
Scientific American - Posted: May 14th, 2008, 11:10am EDT
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]
With gas prices at an all-time high, and predicted to climb higher, seems people are keenly aware of what it costs to drive from here to there. But a study from MIT suggests there’s something many of us are missing. The tolls. Ok, we’re not actually missing the tolls. We’re paying them. But many of us now pay them electronically. As a result, we no longer know exactly how much we’re shelling out. [More]

