The whole tap the brake to drift at any time isn’t a bad model, and didn’t hurt the last two NFS’s I owned (Hot Pursuit 2010 and Most Wanted 2012). But holy shit, this screwball idea of initiating the drift by pumping the gas can be an absolute NIGTHMARE. If your going around a corner *just* a bit too fast to go full…

Smart money is on this getting its own piece. Just being an item in TMS would not do it justice. 

You make a tax that is simply miles and gvw, and people are going to be pretty upset that they are being screwed because they drive responsibly at low vehicle weight, while others are going to game that system and drive fully laden trucks with fully laden trailers.

Hell yes, can’t wait for this to come to PS.

“But SUVs/trucks hurt your feelings, I get it.”

It’s simple: kWh is the simplest and fairest metric to capture road usage and it’s as easy to pull as miles.

Stuck at work so I’m gonna hit all those hypotheticals one at a time.

The shift has already happened inside most industrial buildings. I build a lot of those, and it’s been 10 years since there was plans that included a propane filling station for forklifts. Now there are only chargers.

lol yeah, this is obviously one of those “all other factors being equal” things. If the idea was completely flushed out, the rates would be based on where the vehicle is registered, higher in the northern states, and lowest in the southwest.

Yes, hence my usage of the word “exponentially”.

You realize we are talking about road maintenance, right? Making road taxes a function of distance driven and vehicle weight is literally the fairest way to do this. You are taxed for the damage your vehicle does to the government provided road network. The power used to do that damage is inconsequential.

Eh, it’s only “negligible” on concrete-paved industrial roads. Any Truck/SUV (at least an actual one like a Tahoe or 4Runner, not a crossover) is doing exponentially more damage on asphalt than a car.

I would feel a lot better about this if they made vehicle weight a factor as well. If we are going to get into the nitty gritty of taxing people based on how much they use the road, then it should account for the exponential increase in wear applied by heavier vehicles.

Indeed, and the same premise applies to new cars vs. other new cars; Most Americans would rather have a base-level CR-V than a loaded Accord. 

Indeed, love everything except for the dang 2 spoke steering wheel.

“Well, the beard actually might be gone now, he said in the video that he was tired of pretending to be a socialist”

Same for Chicago. The suburbs that are just an extension of the Chicago grid have held steady, while the further out ones with more land to the plots have gone bananas. 

Think both things are true, just in different contexts. The thing you said is the story of the last year. The thing he said is the story of the previous ten years. We were already having conversations about how much more expensive used cars had been getting before Covid popped off.

Apple would rather kill itself trying to be better than everyone else in an industry than go in with an established and sensible partner. 

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