In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:

> The testing and administrative costs alone are staggering. We'll need
> an order of magnitude more cops for enforcement, since the people who
> lose their licenses will continue to drive anyway. And we'll need tons
> more jail space to house the ones who continue to flout the law.

I don't think you grasp how expensive the controller technology will be
and who will be in control of that technology.

> Unless we somehow find a way to force the perpetrators to pay for all
> of these costs directly, it is competent drivers like you and I who
> will be footing the bill.

Sell their vehicles.

> Now here is something I would support: if you are caught driving
> without a license, whatever vehicle you are driving is immediately
> confiscated and sold at auction. Very few scofflaw drivers can afford
> to keep purchasing a new vehicle every time they get pulled over, and
> the money thus raised could be used to fund the testing and
> enforcement programs.

See, you already know....


>>BTW, the goal of congestion pricing etc and so forth is one of logging
>>and controling travel. If they really wanted to reduce driving a simple
>>increase in the gasoline tax would be enough.

> A gasoline tax increase would punish people for driving on empty roads
> and do nothing to relive congestion on crowded ones. Congestion
> pricing, OTOH, actively discourages the use of overcrowded roads and
> shifts that traffic either to other, less congested roads, other, less
> congested times of the day, or other, less congested modes.

If there was an empty road to use, people wouldn't be on the congested
one.