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You could tax tires, it avoids all the tracking while still distributing road maintenance costs based off actual use of the roads.
That's an interesting thought.
thinks
Tax revenue would be less-frequent, and there might be potential to create a misincentive to encourage people to unsafely drive on threadbare tires longer than they otherwise would. But I could see that being done.
Include tire checks with thread depth minimums in the annual or semiannual registration renewal.
Personally more of a fan of a pay per mile system but this is actually a really cool sounding alternative.