Re: [Pen-l] why don't we legalize hitchhiking?

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 12:40:26 (-0600) Robert Naiman writes:
>I am offering something to the auto industry - the opportunity to make their
>vehicles more fuel-efficient at zero (production) cost.
>
>After all, the auto industry could argue, what really matters is not how
>many miles the _vehicle_ gets per gallon, but how many miles per gallon it
>gets _per passenger_...
>
>Suppose the car comes (voluntarily) equipped with a little electronic box.
>Every time you take a trip in the car of more than X miles, you get some
>kind of economic/pollution control credit if more than one person made the
>trip. You demonstrate this by everybody in the vehicle swiping their cards
>in the electronic box, like frequent flyers on an airline. The electronic
>box has a GPS that counts the miles. Each time the driver and passengers
>earn credit, the auto manufacturer earns economic/pollution control credit
>too, giving them an incentive to promote the program...

"Honey, I'm going to the store, gimme your and the kids' cards..."


Bill
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