Bay Area Drivers Could Be Tracked By GPS, Taxed Per Mile Driven

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.news ^ | July 18

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OAKLAND (KCBS) – Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven – a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways to reduce traffic and pollution, while also raising revenues.

Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments are scheduled to vote on Thursday on whether or not to authorize a study of the proposal. Under the plan, drivers would have to install trackers in their vehicle and officials would tax drivers for every mile they travel.

“We’re not interested in where they go. We’re only interested in the amount they travel,” said Rentschler.

Although all the details are still being worked out, the so-called Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) tax could cost up to a dime per mile and also be based on the time of day a driver is traveling on the roads

[RedMDer]

Keep FR Running Counter the MSM spin machine.

[The Antiyuppie]

They are not the only insurance company piloting this.

What worries me is that the day will come where they might not even offer insurance without it, or offer non-GPS insurance with Lloyds of London premiums.

[The Antiyuppie]

“We’re not interested in where they go. We’re only interested in the amount they travel,” said Rentschler.”

Anyone who actually believes this statement is a complete, total, automatic imbecile.

[The Antiyuppie]

Notice that they don’t even bother trying to do this in “red” areas...because that might just be a tipping point.

If the actual goal was to make road use taxes (which, of course, are no longer used for building and maintaining roads) “fair” between gasoline, LNG, methanol, biodiesel, and so on, wouldn’t a large tax on tires be more fair with a corresponding serious drop in fuel taxes? Of course it would - and that’s why it won’t happen.

[Nowhere Man]

Hey, Frisco, FOAD!