PAYD insurance impacts in California
A new proposal has been done by California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to implement a Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) program in California.
Worried about the fuel economy in the state of California, the government proposed a new federal regulations for 2020 to adjust the average vehicle fuel economy standards to 35/40 mpg.
Moreover in California today the Insurance pricing is inequitable. Drivers who are similar in other respects—age, gender, location, driving safety record—pay nearly the same premiums if they drive five thousand or fifty thousand miles a year.
That means more accidents, congestion, carbon emissions, local pollution, and dependence on oil. This pricing system is inequitable because low-mileage drivers subsidize insurance costs for high-mileage drivers, and low-income people drive fewer miles on average.
So PAYD insurance system seems to be obvious and simplest model to be applied in order to give the opportunity to have a equitable tax per driver.
A recent publish study in California has demonstrated the main benefits of such a PAYD insurance:
- PAYD would result in an 8 percent driving reduction from light-duty vehicles.
- A gross annual social benefits have been estimated to $10.8 billion based on current driving levels, and $21.1 billion based on 2020 projections.
- The California state government would save a lot of money based on this.
- PAYD would generate 7 to 9 % of the total CO2 reductions needed to meet California’s emissions targets for 2020.
- And because geography is a key risk-factor, a roughly equal proportion of rural (62.4 percent) and urban (64.2 percent) California households save money with PAYD.
It means that PAYD represents a win-win policy for the driver but also for the governement and the high target environement rules they want to achieve for 2020.
The PAYD will be really in incentive to drive less reducing congestions and traffic with environmental benefits for the state.
Worried about the fuel economy in the state of California, the government proposed a new federal regulations for 2020 to adjust the average vehicle fuel economy standards to 35/40 mpg.
Moreover in California today the Insurance pricing is inequitable. Drivers who are similar in other respects—age, gender, location, driving safety record—pay nearly the same premiums if they drive five thousand or fifty thousand miles a year.
That means more accidents, congestion, carbon emissions, local pollution, and dependence on oil. This pricing system is inequitable because low-mileage drivers subsidize insurance costs for high-mileage drivers, and low-income people drive fewer miles on average.
So PAYD insurance system seems to be obvious and simplest model to be applied in order to give the opportunity to have a equitable tax per driver.
A recent publish study in California has demonstrated the main benefits of such a PAYD insurance:
- PAYD would result in an 8 percent driving reduction from light-duty vehicles.
- A gross annual social benefits have been estimated to $10.8 billion based on current driving levels, and $21.1 billion based on 2020 projections.
- The California state government would save a lot of money based on this.
- PAYD would generate 7 to 9 % of the total CO2 reductions needed to meet California’s emissions targets for 2020.
- And because geography is a key risk-factor, a roughly equal proportion of rural (62.4 percent) and urban (64.2 percent) California households save money with PAYD.
It means that PAYD represents a win-win policy for the driver but also for the governement and the high target environement rules they want to achieve for 2020.
The PAYD will be really in incentive to drive less reducing congestions and traffic with environmental benefits for the state.
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