Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market
by adrianN on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:35PM
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We get accurate numbers for income tax, why not for road tax?
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Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market
by sargun on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:01AM
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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
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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
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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...