Comments on: PAYD: Privacy And Your Driving http://blog.cdt.org/2008/10/22/payd-privacy-and-your-driving/ Digital Policy in Process Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:02:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harley Geiger http://blog.cdt.org/2008/10/22/payd-privacy-and-your-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-19397 Harley Geiger Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:21:16 +0000 http://blog.cdt.org/?p=547#comment-19397 Today an AP story was released featuring an interview with the U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood. That story is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2009-02-20-vehicle-miles-tax_N.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. In it, LaHood speaks favorably of enacting a tax structured precisely like the PAYD system described in the above blog post. That is, motorists would be taxed based on the miles driven, location, and time of day. A transportation commission report is due next week that will recommend the implementation of this tax. The proposal would equip all vehicles with GPS devices and transponders to log where and when vehicles travel. This information would be sent to the government so that they can affix the appropriate tax amount. While LaHood is speaking to a federal system, various states are proposing the same thing, including Idaho, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Today an AP story was released featuring an interview with the U.S. Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood.

That story is here.

In it, LaHood speaks favorably of enacting a tax structured precisely like the PAYD system described in the above blog post.
That is, motorists would be taxed based on the miles driven, location, and time of day.
A transportation commission report is due next week that will recommend the implementation of this tax.

The proposal would equip all vehicles with GPS devices and transponders to log where and when vehicles travel.
This information would be sent to the government so that they can affix the appropriate tax amount.

While LaHood is speaking to a federal system, various states are proposing the same thing, including Idaho, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Massachusetts.

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