(Brent P)
In what way is that cheaper?
How Did I Miss This One 3713Brent P) The sensors and actuators already exist - they are installed in a bunch of Buicks that drive up and down the auxiliary lanes...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quite frankly, I would like to see congestion pricing on ALL roads.
