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This week in the future of cars: you get what you pay for

December 8, 2017

Via: Wired
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IF YOU WANT to cheap out on a new shirt—you’re heading, say, to Target instead of Bergdorf Goodman—you probably expect to get a totally fine piece of cloth to hang on your back, and won’t get too upset when it inevitably falls apart. The same, tragically, does not apply to American roads. If you don’t pay what the street is worth, the street is going to be bad, for everyone: potholed, packed with traffic, smoggy, poorly monitored by law enforcement. In San Francisco, local authorities are taking shots at pricing parking and closer what they’re actually worth—and adjusting what you’ll pay based on demand. Accurately pricing something all residents use, whether it’s a parking spot, a toll road, or the air we breathe, won’t solve all our problems, as I wrote this week about SF’s scheme. But it might might cut traffic, and be better for the planet in the long run.

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