Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo...
by midasuni on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:19AM
(#36518947)
I use a road in my 1100kg car, you use it in your 2200kg car. You cause 8 times the damage. Do you generate 8 times the positive externalities?
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Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo...
by tomp on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:30AM
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Yes?
The positive externalities created by trucks shipping food into cities massively outweigh almost all passenger traffic.
So charging by weight/road damage makes no sense.
Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo...
by red-iron-pine on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:08AM
(#36520546)
The truck that the parent poster refers to is not a 16-wheeler or panel truck used for commercial purposes, but someone's impeccably clean F-150 that hasn't hauled anything in 2+ years
Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo...
by lm28469 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:31AM
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Do you eat red meat ? sugary drinks ? do you exercise ? Do you have XYZ gene ?
You're costing X times more to the system because you're diabetic/obese/predisposed ? You should pay more!
That's how it sounds, and if we want to live like that we can go back to cavemen times, because we didn't built societies to play this silly game
Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo...
by tangjurine on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:47AM
(#36532460)
Maybe we should go back to having private roads then, and have people who own the roads decide.