New tax on number of miles you drive? Incoming Transportation Secretary Buttigieg likes the idea
Buttigieg endorsed moving to a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) system as a presidential candidate.justthenews.com
No potential for government overreach her whatsoever.
Still an option (I don't have one on any of my vehicles) and a private contract.Again, already there, don't you watch the insurance commercials, they use that to bill you also. The freedoms most of us have enjoyed all our lives are quickly being usurped by the government/corporate cabal. It will be particularly jolting for folks in Indiana as CATO says we are the third freeest state in the union...
Agreed. Most people still defend their sacred cows, however. SS + Medicare come to mind.That is still better than my grandparents getting forced to pay for the nearest town's sewer that never got anywhere near them.
At the end of the day, forced participation is unacceptable.
That is still better than my grandparents getting forced to pay for the nearest town's sewer that never got anywhere near them.
At the end of the day, forced participation is unacceptable.
Still an option (I don't have one on any of my vehicles) and a private contract.
Again, my cars don't have them. They're old.The insurance company connection is optional but the crap monitoring you built in the car is still functioning. Most cars are reporting back to manufacturers and and some app developers even if you don't know it...
According to.my brother who is a heavy equipment mechanic, if you disable the antenna it can scream up its electronic lungs to no effect. The catch is identifying the correct parts or having a mechanic familiar with your vehicle that you can really trust.This is one of those times where technology really screws us. 20 years ago this technology would have been pretty easy to locate in a vehicle and we could have pulled them off and thrown them in the river. Not these days.
When we 1st got those god awful GPS devices on our service trucks we figured out real fast that the radio antenna was the key. We messed with the office staff soooo hard. Leave the shop. Take the antenna off at the gas station and then put it on when you wanted to. Had a lot of fun until the Garmins came along.According to.my brother who is a heavy equipment mechanic, if you disable the antenna it can scream up its electronic lungs to no effect. The catch is identifying the correct parts or having a mechanic familiar with your vehicle that you can really trust.
Except half the time the antennas are just traces on the PCB of the device. So you have to crack open the housing, and be skillful with a Xacto.According to.my brother who is a heavy equipment mechanic, if you disable the antenna it can scream up its electronic lungs to no effect. The catch is identifying the correct parts or having a mechanic familiar with your vehicle that you can really trust.