Motorways in Italy have pay tolls: with a normal car you have to pay around 6 euros per 100 km. There usually are
both automatic and human pay tolls; both humans and machines accept credit/debit cards. Usually there are shorter queues
at automatic pay tolls. Automatic pay tolls are divided in: cash pay tolls (they accept cards, banknotes, and coins) and
"viacard" pay tolls (blue lanes: they accept credit and debit cards, and viacards). Forget "telepass"
(yellow lanes); that is for cars equipped with a certain electronic device for radio payments.
On motorways the speed limit is 130 km/h. Whithin cities and villages, it is 50 km/h. You may reach 110 km/h
on main roads outside cities, and 90 km/h on secondary roads outside cities. How to distinguish among
main and secundary roads it remains mysterious to Italians, too. Sometimes you may reach 70 km/h inside urban areas,
if signs say so. Police has laser photo-guns.
Outside cities, you must switch on the lights all day long. Inside cities, half an hour before sunset, and
half an hour past sunrise.
