New Zealand to Charge Drivers of All Vehicles by Distance Driven

   Hard not to find amazing and frankly quite suspicious that new and often toxic ideas are first tested in Australia and New Zealand nowadays. These countries used to be out of the way bastions of freedom lost at the edge of the world. Now they are test beds of dangerous, experimental and often toxic ideas, before being sharpened, and rolled out in other countries. 

  This was especially obvious during the Covid crisis. And now the follow up, pay-as-you-drive concept. In the end, the objective is almost always the same, control and limit, where you can go and what you can do, and in order to do that implement new surveillance technologies. If there was no Globalist conspiracy, we would have to create one to explain what is going on.

New Zealand to Charge Drivers of All Vehicles by Distance Driven

They are not saying precisely how this will be enforced, but my guess is that some sort of black box with GPS tracking will be required to be added to most vehicles.

Via: Radio New Zealand:

“We’re not going to shift millions of drivers from a simple system at the pump to queues at retailers. So, instead of expanding a clunky government system, we will reform the rules to allow the market to deliver innovative, user-friendly services for drivers.”

Bishop said a handful of E-RUC companies already did this for about half of the country’s heavy vehicle fleet and there were several companies, both domestic and international, with technology that could make complying with RUC cheaper and easier.

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Bishop promised the changes would support “a more user-friendly, technology-enabled RUC system” with multiple retail options available to motorists.

“Eventually, paying for RUC should be like paying a power bill online, or a Netflix subscription. Simple and easy,” he said.

“I expect to pass legislation in 2026, followed by an updated Code of Practice for RUC providers. We will also engage with the market in 2026 to assess technological solutions and delivery timelines. In parallel, NZTA and Police will upgrade their systems to support enforcement in a digital environment.“