With the rapid development of science and technology, our life is now dominated by convenience. For example, in the early 20th century, the collection of tolls was mainly based on manpower.
Around 2010, with the development of ETC10，etc2.0 was born, and more and more people began to use this fast way to cross. But in recent years, the popularity of ETC seems to have declined again.
Vehicles that have not applied for ETC in the past will always see cars whizzing past in the ETC lane when queuing up to pass through the toll booth. It seems to be rare to see it now. ETC has gone from being hot to now a little unpopular, what is the secret in it?Let's move on.
If you want to get rich, you must be familiar with the phrase "build roads first", and the economic development of a region is inseparable from the convenient transportation of the local area. It can be said that a convenient transportation is the vanguard of regional economic development. With the blessing of this concept, China's highways, railways, aviation, and shipping have developed simultaneously.
One of the most eye-catching is the development of highways in China. Here I recommend a CCTV documentary "China Road".This documentary is a very comprehensive summary of the development of highways in China, which gives people a very intuitive feeling.
Back to the topic, the time came to 2009, when China officially opened ETC, and mobile payment and other payment methods were still in infancy at that timeThe big guys are very new to this convenient way of getting through the highway.
At that time, in order to vigorously promote ETC, obvious slogans were posted on TV**, newspapers, highway entrances, etc. Banks will also cooperate with ** to increase publicity and activities for ETC.
At this time, there was a craze for registering ETC across the country. At that time, the ETC passage was very lively, and the ordinary passage seemed to be crowded. This phenomenon continued until 2015.
2015 was not a watershed year for ETC to go from prosperity to decline. On the contrary, with etc2The birth of 0 has added another fire to this heat. More and more people see the convenience of the ETC channel and go to the bank to handle related business.
Here we start with the benefits of **etc. The Chinese translation of etc means electronic non-stop toll collection system. Its usefulness is also closely related to his name.
In the past, when we passed through the toll booth at the highway intersectionWhether it is at the entrance or the exit of the station, under normal circumstances, our private cars have to pass one by one. There is a problem here, the problem of long queues.
Some people will wonder if this kind of crossing system is this model, and it is normal for everyone to line up to pass one by one. That's true, but don't overlook it. The population base and the number of motor vehicles in our country!
Statistics show that at the beginning of the twentieth century,Especially since 2008, the number of motor vehicles in China has shown a blowout growth. On the one hand, China's economic development has brought great progress in more aspects of society, and the common people have money and can afford to buy a new means of transportation, such as automobiles.
On the other hand, China's corresponding infrastructure construction is becoming more and more perfect, and cars used to walk on mud roads, or even have no way to go. Now the roads extend in all directions, and I can go wherever I want to drive by myself, and I don't have any worries at all.
Therefore, the increase in the number of motor vehicles in China has inevitably brought a problem to the highway toll station systemOn holidays, there are often long queues for buses to enter and exit the station. ETC also came into being in this context.
The most intuitive benefit of ETC is that vehicles entering and exiting the station can pass quickly without special circumstances. As we mentioned above, economic development and infrastructure construction such as roads have reached new milestones. People are increasingly preferring to drive their own vehicles to their destinations.
Especially during the holidays, when a small family wants to visit the places of interest, zoos, museums and other places in the area, public transport or road trips are undoubtedly the most convenient. But public transport is already overcrowded during the holidays.
Families who can afford it will drive there. What is it like to look at the long queue when you take a road trip on the highway while you pass by ETC quickly?At this time, the ETC owner must be thinking about the value of this ETC.
In addition, after the national network of expressways was realized in 2017, the ETC popularity continued to be brilliant. Someone is going to have doubtsCould it be that the highways in our country are different in each province?This is Henan's, that's Hebei's
Here we want to briefly understand the development model of China's expressway. Because in the early days, China's highway construction was not all financially supported by the stateMost of them are supported by provincial and local governments to build expressways in their respective regions.
Therefore, after the completion of the expressway, the state only plays a coordinating role. However, highway tolls vary from province to province. The construction of expressways is costly, and local finances are collecting tolls to alleviate the financial pressure.
Although it is a livelihood project and an infrastructure construction project, it is reasonable to charge some tolls. Having said that, different provinces charge different feesFor some people who often travel and work across provinces, it is very "unfriendly".
So much so that the enthusiasm for the opening of ETC was still constrained by this factor before 2017. After 2017, the national network of expressways has made the national toll standard one price. ETC owners no longer have to worry about this matter.
Therefore, before the advent of mobile quick payments,After continuous iterative upgrades, ETC has been sought after by more and more old drivers. Whether it is an individual or a ** vehicle, they are scrambling to handle ETC.
The glory of ETC was not a flash in the pan either. After all, it was a relatively novel and practical model for people at the beginning of the twentieth century. In recent years, it is rare to see cars passing by in the ETC channel, and if you insist on investigating the reason, it can only be attributed to the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves.
This first wave is ETC, and the second wave is the mobile payment that emerged later, covering all aspects of society. With the change of times, the farewell of the highway toll system and the welcome of the new are the fundamental reasons for the loneliness of ETC. But here we build on it and further analyze the reasons for the lack of ETC cars.
The first is the advent of mobile payments. In layman's terms, mobile payment is usually the payment by scanning the code after we shop, and this payment process is the so-called mobile payment method. Needless to say, both the elderly and children are now proficient in using mobile payments.
The convenience of mobile payment to people's lives is self-evident, so "such good things" will naturally be valued by the state and applied to infrastructure constructionAmong the social livelihood projects. The expressway is fully opened, and supporting mobile payment is one of the measures.
People who often run at high speeds can realize it betterWhat used to take a person to pass through a highway can now accommodate at least two cars in a minute. This is the innovation of people's lifestyles brought about by new technologies.
It is also the emergence of this mobile payment method that more and more car owners who wanted to open ETC began to reconsider whether it was necessary to open the ETC project. It is this kind of change that objectively affects the development of ETC.
Secondly, ETC has encountered many problems in practice that need to be improved. Car owners who often use ETC will more or less encounter a "dilemma" problemThis is the road pole of the toll booth ahead of which does not lift after the ETC sweeps the vehicle.
At this time, vehicles cannot back off, as there may already be vehicles waiting to pass behind them. It also can't move forward because the road pole ahead of it is not raised. The owner of the vehicle can only let them operate manually by calling the staff.
In this way, it is possible to spend as little as three to five minutes or as many as ten or eight minutes. There are many reasons why ETC vehicles cannot pass at one time, and they can also be described as varied. System issues, offset vehicle identification issues, or even "robbed" issues.
The system problems mentioned here include,After the ETC vehicle enters the station, the network of the toll collection system of the high-speed toll station is stuck, resulting in the system not being able to respond in time, so the pole cannot be lifted. This kind of problem will arise more often.
In addition, when the ETC vehicle enters and exits the station, it cannot be scanned by the scanning machine at the front end of the toll station due to improper body and other reasons, resulting in not lifting the pole. In this case, the owner can only reverse the vehicle.
If there is no car coming from behind, it is fine, but if there is already a car waiting, it will undoubtedly take a lot of effort. In the end, the situation of "being robbed" is also the biggest headache for most ETC. In layman's terms, this means that there is a private car that is about to get off the station and grab the passage of ETC vehicles.
In order to pass through ETC quickly, the toll station is placed in front of the toll station, that is, a few tens of meters away. According to the scanning results, the rear machine quickly lifts the pole, and the vehicle handling ETC can pass smoothly without slowing down too much.
There is a problem here, there is a gap between the front-end scanner and the ETC toll entrance. As a result, in the past few years, it has often happened that vehicles that have not opened ETC have rushed to pass in front of the ETC vehicles that have been scanned at the exit of the expressway.
Although it is an accidental phenomenon, it has also made people panic after the current news ** report. Many ETC owners have bluntly said that they have the experience of being "rubbed" ETC. It can be seen that this also has a certain negative impact on ETC from the side.
Is ETC really in decline?Here we have to put a big question mark. Although from the above analysis, the opening and use of ETC is certainly far less than around 2015But this decline is only in comparison with the rise of mobile payments.
Compared with mobile payment, private car owners who often run high-speed do not need to worry about the recharge service of ETC, and do not need to worry about the loss of their bank card bound to ETC. The initiative of mobile payment is always in your own hands.
Under this trade-off, it seems that the scene mentioned in the title of our article has appearedThere are no vehicles in the ETC lanes now. Although there is a bit of an exaggeration, it has to be said that this phenomenon or trend does exist.
Nowadays, people are more and more concerned about whether the party is convenient, comfortable, fast, and cost-effective. The advent of mobile payments has provided us with a wider range of options. This may also be the reason why "everyone is not stupid".
At the end we also quote a rebuttal to the headline point of the argument that refutes the statement of the person who is no longer in the limelight:Is it possible that the current ETC channel is more convenient after being improved, and the vehicles that open the ETC have rarely had "accidents" and pass directly
If that's the case, it's understandable that you can't see a single car on the ETC aisle. Through the continuous optimization of the payment system, the identification system,If the experience of ETC users is truly improved, there is still room for ETC to grow.