On 14/05/14 08:56, Jim Birch wrote: > On 13 May 2014 17:53, Alan Hargreaves <[email protected]> wrote: > >> wouldn't this affect your registration and insurance, as your really not >> "private use" any more > > Sooner or later, cars will be charged for time on the road and even better > congestion impact and routes. Registration and insurance could increment > with usage. It would be possible right now to put a low cost box in every > vehicle that reported it's routes and charged according to usage. The > problem is not technical, it's the massive political bunfight :) > Maybe. But it's worth thinking about whether a user-pays approach to everything is really in our best interests in the long term:
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