H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also buying miles would be a local transaction which would ensure the > funds go to the state in which the vehicle is mostly driven. > Rather similar to buying gasoline in Georgia or South Carolina as you drive north. A cell phone knows what State you are in. It adjusts the local time. It could pay whatever State you happen to be in when you "recharge" the mileage. The only problem with these schemes is they would require new hardware in automobiles. My first suggestion, reading the odometer once a year, could be done with existing cars. For that reason, perhaps both schemes could be implemented at first, with the annual odometer method phased out when the entire fleet of cars is replaced. In Georgia, they used to have annual emissions tests that required dynamometers. Around 1990 they began connecting to the automobile computer instead, and no longer needed dynamometers. By 2015 or so, there were only a few dynamometers left in Atlanta. My car needed one, so I had to drive to a seedy neighborhood downtown once a year. They phased out the requirement for cars over 25 years old, then that car abruptly died. I miss it . . .
