Because NYC decided to automate traffic ticketing via camera while it simultaneously adopted insane policies that discourage police stops, the perps have figured out how to get around paying tolls and tickets by simply obscuring their plates. We’ve seen paint scratched off the license plate letters, or they’re taped over. We have phony paper plates. But now we have an even more audacious way to avoid tolls and fines – an automated license plate cover that deploys with the press of a button. The New York Post reported in August that these devices are being sold on Facebook Marketplace. It is estimated that toll dodgers evade $200M in tolls and fines yearly.