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Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo... by midasuni on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:20AM (#36518951)
Which is crazy. Use a car for 500 miles a year you pay the same as someone using it for 50,000 miles a year

Just charge on the odometer reading each year. 3p a mile or whatever. Maybe charge more based on weight.

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Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo... by consp on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:46AM (#36519142)
Power and fuel are still taxed on usage basis. There is no real difference except that road maintenance is also funded by a basic fee. It's a two way system.
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Re:To Save Money on Insurance, Drivers Agree to Intrusive Mo... by verve_rat on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:08AM (#36519345)
Which is basically what we do in NZ. We have Road User Charges (RUC) that you buy in advance. We put road tax on petrol, so petrol vehicles don't pay RUCs. But no road tax on diesel, because tractors and other machinery that doesn't go on public roads. So we just extend the same RUC system for diesel vehicles to EVs.

(But not yet because we were incentivising EV up take. RUCs for EVs will be required in 2024 I believe.)

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