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To: philv who wrote (132466)	3/22/2017 1:20:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 220127

In New Zealand and Europe, fuel tax is lots more than 50%. Hence the popularity of little cars that use less fuel [it's not just small roads]. When cars go electric, the way to tax them is for actual use of roads at busy times. <<Governments are very good at taxing, and I doubt they would relinquish the loss of taxes due to electric cars. Which means that some way or another, those taxes would be added to the electricity bills. That of course would not be fair to those who do not drive, so the vehicle battery charging outlet would have to have it's own meter - which is probably an easy thing to do with the new smart meters?>> There's already very accurate position location technology, and autopilot cars will know where they are to the inch. So they could be taxed depending on exactly where they are and what's happening. So a busy motorway at peak time would be $10 or $20 per kilometre [or 1c per metre], but at 3am it would be free. Hey presto, no traffic jams. Cheapskates like me would avoid peak times, and even quite busy times rather than sit around in a traffic jam with the radio on enjoying the scenery. People needing to actually get somewhere would zoom straight through at high speed once all the useless people are off the road. Having cars that drive themselves would also avoid a huge amount of delay. At present, when a light goes green, it takes a while for the first car to go. Then, some time later the second car gets going, slowly. The third car might or might not get going before the light goes red. Game over for the rest. With autopilot cars, they'd all start moving simultaneously and accelerate quickly. Traffic lights would be obsolete. No need for them. All they do is stop people going. They should all be turned off at off-peak times but the people running them don't have imaginations and can't actually think. So at 3am there are still red lights all over the place. Mqurice