Re: 8 lessons on shooting engineers

On Apr 23, 4:03 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
You provide the meters for cars, like you provide license plates for
cars and drivers licenses.

When you cross into America, well you will have to buy miles or
something.

Maybe that is the way to go. You have to buy miles.

Or take mass transit.

So why not do that then?
You have to buy miles and you can buy them like you buy a phone card
for your cell phone and if you get caught without a valid card, then
that is the same as being caught without a drivers license.

And if you run out of miles, on a dark stretch of road, you can use
your cell phone, to phone up and buy some miles on your credit card.
Or takes your chances. Just like you might if you were driving with a
suspended license.

Then you can sell Hydrogen cars.
You have a meter in your car, and you enter the digits to add the
miles.
You can get more high tech like they do with onstar road service and
as you are running low on miles a friendly voice can say, you are
running out of miles, and we know where you live.

If you want to encourage people, then you have a little reddish
blueish light on your license plate and when you run out of miles, it
goes on, but people would disconnect it, or you can just go on the
honor system, and hope you don't get caught till pay day, then put in
40 bucks, because you odometer keeps track, and the longer you don't
add your miles, the more it adds up, and if you sell the car, the
miles must be up to date, and if you renew your insurance, the miles
must be up to date.

That makes more sense to just go on the honor system, get a fine for
driving without miles, or if you want to be more strict say in Texas,
then you could impound the vehicle, but in Canada, when you renew your
insurance, your miles have to be up to date and for people with
disabilities, they might even give them a discount as well as seniors.

So there is no excuse for not making them. And you can if you want,
employ a miles service, but then what will happen?
Will that be like the bank which charges a buck every time you use
your card?

So screw that. Its a capitalist world, and candle makers had to make
way for Edison, and your gas stations will have to adapt to service
centers or go out of business.

But horses still pulled carts for years, while cars drove on roads
too, so it won't happen over night.

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