I used to have an old 1980 dodge d50 pickup that had expired tabs and no insurance. I would use it to drive to the store, take loads to the dump, but didn’t really drive it that much. It hit me one day that the truck cost me NO MONEY when I was not actually driving it. Man it was freeing. Naturally I looked for cops when driving it, but it looked good and blended nicely.
Why am I bringing this up? Wouldn’t it be great if both insurance and tabs were based on actual miles driven? It would incent drivers to only drive when they need to and only pay for actual use. I love the non-socialist concept of pay-for-play. You only pay for what you use. Imagine your car costing you nothing while it sits in the driveway.
Do NOT wish for this too hard, because some states (Oregon in particular) are looking at putting a GPS box into your car to record exactly how many miles you’ve driven to do exactly what you are suggesting.
It goes without saying that they’ll be recording every trip’s actual path to “record accurately” your use of things like bridges, etc.
It will be the single biggest invasion of privacy we’ve seen in our lifetimes.
No. People like me who live in the country and work in the city would suffer the brunt of it. And yes, your truck cost you no money to drive it, but it was ILLEGAL and therefore you weren't following your own suggestion of pay to play. Sounds more like your concept is rules for thee but not for me.