We could start the transition today, using existing low-cost all-electronic tolling (transponders and license-plate imaging) on all limited-access highways, such as Interstates and expressways.
The main area where they have acted jointly is in setting up the California Digital Library, which drives hard bargains with the publishers of periodicals to license the use of their electronic versions.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and released Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) catalogue just how pervasive automatic license plate readers have become at the Mexican and Canadian borders, with cameras placed in dozens of U.S. cities each capturing images of millions or tens of millions of plates a year.