In Parts One and Two of this series, Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge?, we explored what is happening on the national level and in Congress respectively. Road User Charges (RUC) are also called Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax (VMT) or Mileage-Based User Fees (MBUF). A number of states are experimenting […]
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Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 3—Regional and Local Efforts: NMA E-Newsletter #551
August 5, 2019 • 0 Comments • Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, PRIVACY, Road User Charge, SAFETY, Technology, VMT, VMT Tax
Universal Road User Charges Really? Many Questions that need Answers by the Rest of Us
July 26, 2019 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Bicycle, CELL PHONE, Congestion Pricing, E-Scooters, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, Motorcycle, NMA, PRIVACY, Road Rage, Road User Charge, Technology, Toll Roads
Editor’s Note: One of our Texas members wrote the following guest post as a response to this past week’s first part of the NMA three-part newsletter called: Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge. Parts two and three will be on the website www.motorists.org on July 28 and August 4, respectively. […]
Why Pay-Per-Mile Auto Insurance is a Bad Idea after All
With so many services now available on a subscription basis, it’s little surprise that the insurance industry is moving in that direction too. One of the newer solutions from auto insurers is the pay-per-mile insurance plan. The idea is straightforward: you pay a flat fee to cover theft insurance and each time you drive the […]
Where’s Our Cut from Data Mining of our Cars?
• July 7, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, Eric Peters, EVENT DATA RECORDER, Fuel, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, Technology, VMT
You’ve probably seen people driving around in cars covered over or “wrapped” with advertisements for some service or product and wondered how much the owner got paid to allow his car to be transformed into a mobile billboard. But he is at least getting paid. The non-wrapped cars are working, too but their owners aren’t being […]
Choose your victims well (continued)
More from the “everybody does it” department. A Missouri sheriff was sentenced to six months in prison for tracking important people instead of nobodies. There is a massive infrastructure dedicated to tracking Americans. The sheriff used a private company, the ironically named Securus. They do not keep your information secure. Why should they? You are […]
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