It’s a gimmick-driven concept. You’d have to have some gear tied into the vehicle and counting. Of course, there’s only one or two companies selling such a gimmick and this guy is probably getting some campaign funds from one of them.
I will note this too....it wouldn’t take much work to disconnect such a device.....pay $5 a year for fake mileage, just to get out of the $400 that I pay currently for state/federal gas taxes built into the cost of filling up. So I could see a reason to go this way, and cut billions out of the federal grip. Course, they’d wake up a year later and realize the public had gotten around their scheme, and they were seriously hurting from a lack of tax revenue.
And I should note this...I’m from Alabama where five-percent of the state ‘roads’ are still unpaved. Would you be tracking my mileage on dirt roads and making me pay for dirt road transit?
No you would not need a gear on the car
It would work like an auto toll tag and only require a RFID tag on the windshield. The charge would be debited from a bank account though an auto pay system like a toll road.
I have been saying this was coming to the electric car crowd for a long time. A lot of the cost of gasoline is actually road tax. Tesla and Leaf drivers don’t pay that tax. Hybrid drivers pay much less than their fair share.
The issue is not the revenue it would raise but that it effectively tracks your movements. The other issue is that it would be you account that that is debited even if you loaned the car to someone.
Of course this would also kill off electric cars because if the drivers have to pay the road tax the extra cost of the car would not be justifiable. So I guess there is a silver lining to everything