How is Mr Apple doing?LOL, I’m only 43. And to think that I first found this place when I was 17 😮
Speaking of which, talked to Anand a few months back and had a video call with him and other media during the M3 MacBook Pro launch. My, how the time flies!
Yes, it was Ace Reporter when I worked for AnandTech/DailyTech. Then it became "No Lifer"NFS4:
last post Sep 29, 2017
Welcome back after 6yrs!
Were you the ace reporter or was that someone else?
How is Mr Apple doing?
you Still have that Mazda?He's doing great. He's coming up on 10 years at Apple (I can't believe it's been that long). And yes, he's still into fast cars.
No, I don't have the Mazda anymore (I traded it in back in 2011 after five years). Yes, I was the one you mailed the coupon to!!you Still have that Mazda?
(Were you the one i mailed a $500 off coupon for a new Mazda?)
Illi-noise? I thought you were in I-oh-Way?That's not bad all things considered. Here in Illinois the yearly registration fee for my Mustang is $251 which I don't mind paying. I honestly think it's on the low side considering I use the same roads as everyone else but get to fill up in my garage. A $100 difference in registration fees pales in comparison to the annual taxes I would be paying on gasoline or diesel fuels if I drove an ICE vehicle.
I think a set registration fee then a tax based on yearly milage would be fair for EVs and hybrids or hell maybe everyone but that gets complicated and I don't see it happening anytime soon.
In the U.S., roads are funded primarily through a sales tax on gasoline and diesel. EV vehicles don't use either so the users don't pay the taxes that fund the roads. The fee at registration replaces these taxes for EV vehicles. Adding fees to high efficiency ICE vehicles because they use less gasoline and therefore pay less fuel tax is stupid. These folks are getting screwed as these high efficiency vehicles are generally lighter and cause less road damage.
Glad you don't make tax policy in my state. Hell, a Mini Cooper has a curb weight of 2846 lbs!! The fourth power is: 6.5605 E+13. The tax rate would need to be something like 1.0 E-11. A truck weighing twice that would be 16 times more expensive to register!!Okay, all y'alls convinced me to update my proposal.
Curb weight^4 x miles x rate = tax strikes me as a reasonable way to pay for roads . If we want a sin tax on carbon on top of that to pay for climate change mitigation, okay.
Currently for gas and diesel, the tax is pre-paid before one drives those miles. Finding a method for pre-paying the road tax is probably a good idea as opposed to billing vehicle owners once a year. Not sure how to do this without an invasive system.
With a Mini Cooper, your taxes would likely go down while the taxes on brodozers went up in order to properly apportion the costs of road damage.Glad you don't make tax policy in my state. Hell, a Mini Cooper has a curb weight of 2846 lbs!! The fourth power is: 6.5605 E+13. The tax rate would need to be something like 1.0 E-11. A truck weighing twice that would be 16 times more expensive to register!!
Only missing thing is - you need to also address the issue of rationing road-space, i.e. congestion charging.Okay, all y'alls convinced me to update my proposal.
Curb weight^4 x miles x rate = tax strikes me as a reasonable way to pay for roads . If we want a sin tax on carbon on top of that to pay for climate change mitigation, okay.
Currently for gas and diesel, the tax is pre-paid before one drives those miles. Finding a method for pre-paying the road tax is probably a good idea as opposed to billing vehicle owners once a year. Not sure how to do this without an invasive system.
They're not getting screwed at all. They still drive on the roadways. Are the vehicles lighter? Sure, but the roadways still cost in the millions of $$$ per mile to build. Regardless of vehicle weight, higher MPG vehicles, or EV, that cost has to be paid by the drivers.
Several states have been talking about replacing gas taxes with an annual "pay per mile" fee that gets paid with registration. I see lots of ways for that to be fucked...
In much of the US, this isn't a particularly relevant concern. Something akin to London's ULEZ might be a way to start, but runs into the issue of many cities having shit transit options.Only missing thing is - you need to also address the issue of rationing road-space, i.e. congestion charging.
Nah Illinois born and raised. I do love Iowa though. If you have ever driven through there in the late summer when the sun is just right the way it reflects off the corn is beautiful. When you're on 130 heading north west toward Bennett those fields are something else.Illi-noise? I thought you were in I-oh-Way?
Nah Illinois born and raised. I do love Iowa though. If you have ever driven through there in the late summer when the sun is just right the way it reflects off the corn is beautiful. When you're on 130 heading north west toward Bennett those fields are something else.
Clerk walks out to your car and looks at the odometer when you go to pay the fees.If you replace gas taxes with "pay per mile", you (a) need to have a means of recording how many miles people drive, which seems to imply quite a serious level of surveillance, and (b) it loses the incentive of gas taxes for increasing fuel efficiency.
I might be out-of-date (as technology marches on) but traditionally it was far-from-unknown for people to 'wind back the clock' and fiddle odometers. And does it not depend _where_ one clocked up the miles?Clerk walks out to your car and looks at the odometer when you go to pay the fees.
I was a little bummed today by a worse than usual MPG trip in my 11 year old car. I 'only' got 31MPG. My lifetime average for the car is 35.3 and I do a lot of city driving in the cold...LoL 25mpg is considered high efficiency?
Someone drives 10,000 miles that year, but 5,000 of it in other states. They're paying more to their state, and possibly depriving other states or basically having to pay twice for half of it.Clerk walks out to your car and looks at the odometer when you go to pay the fees.
While digital odometers can be reprogrammed, it's usually not a simple task, and would probably outweigh the taxes necessary except in extreme cases.I might be out-of-date (as technology marches on) but traditionally it was far-from-unknown for people to 'wind back the clock' and fiddle odometers. And does it not depend _where_ one clocked up the miles?
I just did some googling and wikipidiaing and found out 25mpg is actually considered efficient for rear-engined sports car class cars. For example the Audi R8, Lamborghini Galorado, and the similar types.LoL 25mpg is considered high efficiency?
25MPG would be great for tanks as well.I just did some googling and wikipidiaing and found out 25mpg is actually considered efficient for rear-engined sports car class cars. For example the Audi R8, Lamborghini Galorado, and the similar types.
i think the abrams main line tank does 2 gallons per mile.25MPG would be great for tanks as well.
0.9 mpg on pavement loli think the abrams main line tank does 2 gallons per mile.
But it's diesal