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Why the assumption that this data tracking is somehow not an issue for driverless vehicles? Autodrives will still need insurance. They will still be tracked, by google/apple and any number of other "business partners" for a start. Those issuing insurance will still want to keep tabs on vehicle location/speed/movement should the inevitable insurable event occur. The privacy concerns will be the same regardless of who is behind the wheel.

Now the exception to above is perhaps a world where none of these autodrives are privately owned. One might think that in such situations a passenger's movements would be anonymous. They won't be. Even cabs/ubers today keep track of who goes where. Whenever a means of transport is not privately owned, payment will be an issue. And payment leads to individualized tracking.

The further exception to above would be autodrives owned by google and paid for with untraceable cryptocurrency (or cash) ... that's one too many layers of fantasy to debate.




If you were able to pay with coins, they would just be able to tell that the goofball who always only pays with coins used the vehicle.


Lol. As if any trip will cost so little that coins are the problem. If the google cars take cash they would become unguarded ATMs full of unmarked 20s ... on wheels... driving alone through bad neighbourhoods.


...that could phone in a distress call to a private security firm if it was attacked.


and always leaves from this neighborhood to this office on weekday mornings...

gonna need a big blockchain to hide that.




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