Yep, am inclined to agree with Charles! Suspect there’s going to need to be some form variable pricing - either on location (city centres, motorways) or time of day. (I hope they can also figure out how to do it so that travel data is anonymised, but not quite sure there’s any way around this).
Yep, am inclined to agree with Charles! Suspect there’s going to need to be some form variable pricing - either on location (city centres, motorways) or time of day. (I hope they can also figure out how to do it so that travel data is anonymised, but not quite sure there’s any way around this).
My back-of-the-envelope idea would be to give everyone x “free” miles per month, and then tax per mile on top of that. And maybe even make surplus miles trade-able? So that normal people are incentivised to cut usage and maybe even make a little money, and trades-people (van drivers and the like) can buy up extra miles at a cheaper rate than they would otherwise pay tax? (Obviously I haven’t really thought this through.)
Yep, am inclined to agree with Charles! Suspect there’s going to need to be some form variable pricing - either on location (city centres, motorways) or time of day. (I hope they can also figure out how to do it so that travel data is anonymised, but not quite sure there’s any way around this).
My back-of-the-envelope idea would be to give everyone x “free” miles per month, and then tax per mile on top of that. And maybe even make surplus miles trade-able? So that normal people are incentivised to cut usage and maybe even make a little money, and trades-people (van drivers and the like) can buy up extra miles at a cheaper rate than they would otherwise pay tax? (Obviously I haven’t really thought this through.)
Any scheme involving tradeables will be targeted for scams. Better avoided.