I completely support this technology. Right now, you pay for roads whether you drive on them or not, through your taxes. If the every road could be made a toll road, then the people who drove on the roads would pay for them, and people who take public transportation or choose not to own a car wouldn't pay. Even if you drive a lot, there are possible advantages. The road operator has an incentive to keep the roadway in good condition and clear of congestion, since they maximize tolls when the roads are free flowing and accident clear. Also, there would be fewer cars on the road since there's a disincentive to take unnecessary trips - you don't want to pay the toll. So your commute time would almost certainly go down in this scenario, and I imagine that if you are spending an hour in the car to get to work now, and that drops to 45 minutes, the time saved would be worth more than the toll. Overall, automated tolls would result in LESS driving and LESS congestion, which seems like a good thing.

Patents are supposed to encourage innovation by allowing people to reveal their inventions to the general public, and therefore allow everyone to build on that innovation. The patent holder now has an incentive to reveal their craft rather than keep it a trade secret.

The reason this shouldn't apply in software is that patents don't encourage people to reveal how they did things - commercial software is closed source. Effectively, everything is a "trade secret". Microsoft holds a ton of software patents, but it doesn't reveal it's source code or anything that would benefit the industry as a whole. In effect, software patents become for that company a one-way grant of rights over the public, with no benefit flowing to the public as a consequence. They could achieve the same result by keeping everything a trade secret, without hampering anyone else's ability to innovate. I would argue that a company that seeks patent protection for software should be required to reveal the source code of that software, so that general innovation is promoted. They can still claim patent protection on that software, but everyone is entitled to learn from and build on the source code it protects.