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Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market by adrianN on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:35PM (#15919975)
We get accurate numbers for income tax, why not for road tax?
Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market by sargun on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:01AM (#15920052)
Because installing a tracker on someone’s car will end with lots of privacy issues? You need a tracker to properly attribute taxes to the person that owns the road, and even though you don’t need super accurate trackers, any tracking can be abused.
Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market by yorwba on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:06AM (#15920270)
You don't need trackers if you just want to replicate the mechanism of the fuel tax for cars that don't use fuel. For that you only need a tamper-protected mileage counter.
Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market by Reason077 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:52AM (#15920842)
You don't need an electronic tracker to implement distance-based road charges. New Zealand has been doing this for decades:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/licensing-rego/road-user-c...

Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market by zaarn on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:07AM (#15920899)
You mean, the mileage counter on my car is a privacy issue?

Just read of the mileage counter, end of story.