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“The commission’s study found that 54%, roughly half of respondents had security concerns. Roughly 88% of participating drivers opted to self-report mileage instead of using a GPS monitoring system.”
I feel like this part of the article needed some serious exploration that isn’t there. Is there a chance in this proposition that they would track mileage with a GPS system? Because that is a much bigger deal if so.
I'd find it to be an invasion of privacy to have my mileage tracked, but on the other hand, people will underreport their miles if it's up to self-reporting. The only way to do this properly is to not have self-reporting.
You could have the odometer read yearly by a certified person. In UT they do this for registration renewals and you can have it done at pretty much any gas station or dealership.
I think that would be infinitely better than affixing an electronic tracking device from the government to all private vehicles.