[riantogo]

The other day I was driving through a school zone and it had that 25 mph radar screen. Most people did slow down, but it got me thinking. With modern cars being "smart", could govt offer a tax tax break for folks opting into the car sotware capping speeds dynamically?

[jasonjayr]

This might be in the works already: with hybrids + full electric vehicles being increasingly used, the revenue from a fuel tax is dropping. There are regions investigating use-based taxes that track when and where vehicles are used, and assess a tax based on that information.

This is, of course, a frightening proposal for anyone who wants to keep even one shred of privacy, but so it goes ....

[KingMachiavelli]

There's a lot of interesting ways to do usage based vehicle tax that don't impact privacy or do so only minimally.

The simplistic is to just bin roads into N categories and every mile it increments your monthly usage category N road type. The categories could be anything like road type, time of day, current congestion level, etc. There's actually little reason to track the specific location or road name.

[rrr_oh_man]

> There's actually little reason to track the specific location or road name.

Yet, so many reasons for several government agencies to do exactly that.

[rrr_oh_man]

My exact thoughts, although I would’ve been more blunt…

"Do you have anything to hide" is one of the worst sentences in existence.

[YetAnotherNick]

It wouldn't need to share any data with anyone, just have dynamic speed control depending on the road someone is driving. Storing data for all 6 million km of road locally and refreshing them regularly should be doable.

[germangardener]

But I pay taxes for energy already? Why should I pay to charge and then again to drive?

[KennyBlanken]

Governments are already considering or in the process of mandating that cars be equipped with automatic speed limiters. It's long overdue.

[Vecr]

There's no way that's a good idea without a AZ-5 style wax+paper seal and flip cap on the steering wheel to turn it off. You want to be able to use your car in emergency situations.