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Originally Posted by andrewwynn
I'm curious about this thought. This offset changes the speedometer display not the odometer. Do you pay by the km that you drive? Entirely too logical of a way to have people pay for the roads they wear out that will never take off in the USA. (people have proposed using GPS in the car but as that would also help prove who causes crashes they have blocked that legislation of course)
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Ohsoslow and I were making a joke about road tax evasion. Here in NZ roading is paid for by a levy on fuel and when this was introduced (decades ago) when most passenger cars ran on petrol and most agricultural equipment ran on diesel. To avoid penalising farmers this levy was only applied to petrol sales - road users of diesel vehicles pay this levy seperately via a system called Road User Charges. You have to pay in advance for blocks of distance you intend to travel. I usually purchase 5,000km or 10,000km blocks ($312 and $625 respectivily). This once really only applied to the transport industry but with the massive increase in diesel-powered private vehicles, many of us now pay RUC on top of our fuel costs.
And yeah, the coding changes we are discussing don't affect odometer readings.