How exactly are we going to pay for the police when people stop getting speeding/parking tickets due to self-driving cars?
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With the money we’re saving on costs associated with car ownership & bad drivers.
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sure, but the "getting people to give that to government to fund cops" is the hard part.
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You don't have to. You just have to tax the driverless car companies so they pass on less savings to consumers.
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Also, how do we replace gas taxes? Raise PG&E taxes, or fixed fees on electric vehicles?
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only problem here is that Uber can make a very strong argument they shouldn’t pay to police crime they’re not committing.
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Who says you have to earmark at source? Just increase corporate taxe rate. Done. Wide net.
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Also, that's a significant portion of their job they'll no longer have to do. So, lower costs. Less economic waste.


