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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only thing to do is to charge by mile for all cars and trucks. You could do this by annual inspections or use the existing surveillance systems set up by the police to calculate miles drives.

Some states have already started use license plate readers to calculate time and distance. If the calculation show you exceed the speed limit between to readers you are issued a ticket. So the technology is already there.

Maybe send out the bill quarterly for all cars- EV, gas, hydrogen, diesel, whatever.[/quote]

What a horrible system.  I doubt majority of Americans want to live in constant 24-7 surveillance state where even personal vehicle ownership and usage is tightly controlled by the government.  I wonder how much of this nonsense people are willing to accept.

Also, I've driven through Italy which has this avg speed calculation system where they figure out if you were speeding based on how fast you get from one scanner to another.  But this system is faulty too, because if you slow down anywhere in between the checkpoints your avg speed drops.  It really doesn't prevent dangerous type of speeding that kills people, it's simply a fee extraction system for the naive.  Someone can drive recklessly part of the way only to have to slow down due to traffic and will never get a ticket.  Or they can make up the speed if they were stuck in traffic by speeding later, the avg. speed is still legit and won't result in a ticket, but they'd get there faster than if they followed posted speed all the way since they made up for the slowdown.

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Ah contrare, you'd be surprised at how little value people will accept in return for surveillance.  Just having roads is likely good enough, but most people accept tracking just to have a cellphone.  [/quote]

This administration would obviously sell that information to insurance carriers to jack up rates. [/quote]

I'm fine with that; I don't like subsidizing bad driving EG I pay money to insurance companies -And- I've been rear ended several times.  Why do I have to pay for that?[/quote]

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