Driving While Intaxicated

wired news ^ | 6.3.03 | Will Wade

[freepatriot32]

Oregon wants to know more about where people are driving -- a lot more. And it's looking at some high-tech ideas to generate tax revenue by billing drivers for every mile they travel on the state's roads.

The Oregon Department of Transportation is evaluating a scheme that uses the global positioning system to keep track of the distance every car travels in order to impose a road-use tax.

[microgood]

I cannot believe these people are series.

[Bob Buchholz]

I think it's a great idea. Since I don't live in Oregon I won't have one of those little boxes in my car. I can drive across Oregon, buy my gas there and never have to pay a cent!

[ElectricStrawberry]

What next?...a respirator that measures the volume of each breath and then tax people per cubic foot or air breathed?

How about they just stop the waste.

[Calpernia]

I think it will be a joy to watch the screw ups from this. Block the GPS signal....no tax on gas.... governor runs in circles chasing tail. :)

[Calpernia]

Don't give California any ideas.

[Leisler]

"What we're trying to do is find a replacement for the gas tax," said Jim Whitty, administrator of the state's Road User Fee Task Force. The tax, currently 24 cents per gallon, generates about 70 percent of the total budget for building and maintaining roads in Oregon.

Road use is already taxed per mile, by fuel use. What they want, the liars, are taxes in addition to the fuel tax. Also look for road building company Republicans and Union worker Democrats to support this. Along with the enviros and the usual suspects.

[Fedupwithit]

...and people out here on the FReep say that Massachusetts politicians are idiots!!

I am glad to see we have not cornered the market...

[D. Brian Carter]

The traditional solution has simply been to raise the tax rate, but that approach is always unpopular with voters.

And tracking their every move is going to be POPULAR with the voters????

Pardon to the folks here who live on the Left Coast, but has everything west of the Rockies been officially designated "Wackoland" yet?

[PatrioticAmerican]

That GPS system will cost an easy $2,500 per car. As usual, liberals are idiots who do not understand simple math. They probably don't collect $2,500 per car in three years as it is.

Besides, wouldn't tracking system constitute unlawful search?

[PatrioticAmerican]

Wackoland? "Left Coast" is accurate enough.

[John Jorsett]

I see so many ways to hack this that I can't believe they'd try it.

[martin_fierro]

What should you do when driving while intaxicated?

You should paaahhhk yah caaaahhhhh (in Hahvaaaaad Yaaaaaad)!

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[gaspar]

I would suggest we buy a ticket and send Kim back to North Korea where he could be put to immediate use.

[dufekin]

No, they'll just have to create an elaborate system such that it's a felony to drive more than 10 miles per day, then the state can get a warrant against a driver suspected of violating the rules, which will be all drivers.

Next, watch a 9-year-old figure out how to disable this scheme. Or buy a car in Nevada. Or leave the state on a freeway and reenter on a remote border crossing, hence triggering the machine off.

[StriperSniper]

GPS, which can monitor exactly where a car goes within the state and at what times,

And at what speed.

[Gunslingr3]

How long before they start barcoding babies and implanting a GPS chip.
"We demand it."

[Issaquahking]

Time to do the "Dell" elctrostic test on the device to make sure the reading remains at zero! Talk about Big Brother out of control - praise the Lord and pass the ammo.

[Political Junkie Too]

Will we have to pay for using the satellites, too?

-PJ

[goldstategop]

Sssh... dont give the California socialists a new idea.