I think just taxing the tires is the solution! More wear on roads should closely correlate with more wear on tires, and each tire likely has a lifetime determined by weight * distance. You need to account for tire structure, but even if you tax all tires the same, it should be a good approximation of what we're looking for.

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jackvalentine 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

This is a good way to incentivise people to buy the shittiest tyres they can and stretch them well past usable life because it’ll cost them a motza to replace.

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ed_elliott_asc 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a way to tax tires (tyres?) based on wear and not when they have holes in?

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jfim 7 months ago | parent [-]

One potential way to do this would be to weigh the tires at sale and charge a tax based on the weight of the tire. When the tire is ultimately disposed of, a refund is issued based on the weight of the disposed tire.

This would encourage both avoiding tire wear and proper disposal of tires. That assumes obviously that people don't cheat the system by making tires heavier somehow when returning them.

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zuhsetaqi 7 months ago | parent [-]

And how would a system work, to check all that? To me that sounds like a lot of overhead to make sure no one outsmarts the system

	▲	bdangubic 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		and of course the system will 100% be outsmarted