[blibble]

there's a couple of edge cases for odometer based tracking, namely private roads and tracks (e.g. racing)

[happyopossum]

Would you trust a government imposed GPS based tracking system to properly account for those edge cases? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Also, those aren’t exempted under the current gas tax model anyway, so why bother?

[blibble]

I would indeed prefer the odometer based solution to the GPS

but it's not perfect

(and you are currently exempted from the gax tax model if you have a electric vehicle on private roads / tracks, I doubt too many are affected by this though)

[happyopossum]

> you are currently exempted from the gax tax model if you have a electric vehicle on private roads

Private roads are irrelevant - electric vehicles don't pay gas tax, that's the point of this whole conversation.

[blibble]

> Private roads are irrelevant - electric vehicles don't pay gas tax, that's the point of this whole conversation.

uh, yes?

which wouldn't be the case if we switched to a tax based on an odometer

that's the point of this whole conversation.

[hexo]

I would prefer freedom and privacy to both "solutions".

[planede]

Tracks could be handled by having an official reading when entering and leaving the track, then make the difference deductible from your "miles tax".

Similar stuff for entering and leaving the country.

Not sure how I would approach private roads.

[mywittyname]

It's not really an edge case. Everyone drives on paved private property (parking lots and the like). A flat 2% mileage reduction per year is probably enough to cover this for the vast majority of people. So if someone drives 10,000 miles a year, you'd charge them for 9800 miles with the assumption that they drove about 200 miles on private property that year.