You could get rid of the gas tax bureaucracy while you are creating a small increase in the licensing bureaucracy.
Ok, in the real world what's going to happen is that they're going to keep both gas taxes and mileage taxes. So you have more bureaucracy, higher tax rates, and more invasion of privacy by keeping tabs on how far a person drives every year. And you know they're not going to just read odometers to get the data. It's the same thing as why even have license plates? Every vehicle has a unique identifier already built in (VIN).
'If we allow this without litigation, everyone will do it tomorrow,' says an anonymous source. 'If we litigate, we have a chance to win.'"
I couldn't have summed up the modern corporate philosophy better if I had tried. When in doubt, sue. How dare they do something innovative or convenient to their customers?
The only chance of beating my desktop a mobile device would have is when it's equally priced, transportable, but can be quickly and easily "docked" in so I can use my real screens, keyboard, mouse and speakers.
With USB, that's theoretically possible. Also, remember cell phones initially had the same issues. And look at how far they've come in the last 20 years.
I have more trust in Google than I do the the United States government.
And this right here is the problem. When a for profit corporation engenders more trust than our supposedly representative government. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.