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by 404mm 23 days ago
Weight is only one dimension. What matters is weight and mileage. Our family has two cars but we drive less combined than a typical single person in our area.
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Where that gets problematic is you can't easily validate mileage for something like an online renewal.

I will say you did give me a fun idea however; you could in theory set up a kiosk system where scanning renewal notice + license[0] and get some sort of OBD2 plug-in device, that could record the mileage+vin+other data (to harden against faking attacks[1]) and then you take it back to the kiosk to confirm mileage.

IDK, probably not the best way to do it but maybe there's a good way to handle this sort of scenario.

[0] - In case you abscond with the dispensed device for some reason...

[1] - But this is possibly where it falls apart...