Who wants to mentally calculate if you can get where you want to go and back or have to pare down your list of destinations to accomodate the range limit?
Data collected now that aren't in use yet include elevation data to calculate roadway grades, which may become a crucial metric for back-seat drivers being built into the next generation of trucks and cars.
Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainment level at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.