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People have have a hard time figuring out how to pay for roads since antiquity.

Private roads often charged tolls. The problem is figuring out when, where and how to charge the tolls.

Truck drivers in the US have been paying taxes for road mile driven for quite some time. Truck drivers keep detailed logs of every mile driven in each state along with info on the fuel they purchase.

They then end up filing complex reports that weigh the miles driven against fuel purchased.

The ability to electronically track every mile cars drive might lead to a more equitable system for funding road maintenance. If designed correctly, we might even see privatization of more of the nation's infrastructure.

BTW, the privare railroads in the US charged customers for the use of the rails. A primary reason that people preferred cars to railroads is people felt that they could externalize the cost of the rails onto the cars.

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