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A vehicle miles added tax would, in smart policy districts, allow the curbing of excessive car use, especially for a company like Uber or Lyft. There's also congestion tax, which many cities are already implementing. Some cities just straight up banned non-electric past a certain year, so we're already moving slowly to deal with traffic. I think we'll have the tools we need by the time it's a huge problem. In Boston, the traffic is pretty awful, there are just many cars shoved into a small area with infrastructure based on cow paths from original settlements.



You don't think they'd just pass the taxes on to the customer in fees and then blame the local govt?

Personally I'm for banning cars altogether from city centers. Many cities are implementing that too, and not nearly soon enough.




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