That is besides the point. You thought a broken odometer would prevent you from getting mileage tax.
State Farm sent me these very small electronic devices, which is used to record mileage on my cars and how good or bad are my driving habits. It rates me on turns, braking, acceleration, exceeding speed limits, etc. That data is used to determine how much discount I will get on my next car insurance bill. I am getting $40 discounts on my bills since I am generally a safe driver.
That device knows which parking lot I visited but has no way to know which store I shopped at or which restaurant I ate in, or which other business I visited.
The fact is we are using more and more of electrical vehicles. And all of them are exempt from the gasoline tax since they don’t use any gas. That is unfair to us gas based car drivers. So I go along with the mileage device DOT will install in my car.
Of course you can cheat by removing the device from your car on longer drives, so long as a cop does not flag you down and ask why that device is missing in your car.
State Farm keeps trying to get me to put these in my vehicles. No way in hell am I going to let them monitor my places I go, my speed in getting there, and when I go. Not going to happen.