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I agree, but it's more than just that --- self-driving cars will take more control away from individuals and put that in the hands of corporations and governments, who will have a much easier time tracking --- and even controlling --- the large-scale movement of the population. When they decide to outlaw non-self-driving cars almost completely, "the frog will have been thoroughly boiled."

Of course, it's all done under the argument of safety. But I don't think a perfectly safe world, one with no risk at all, is one worth living in either. There's enough dystopian scifi around to predict rather accurately what will happen.




Regular cars are already being tracked. Real-time license plate scanning is a solved problem.

You're probably more anonymous buying a bus ticket with cash than driving your car.


You already got one or more GPS wireless tracking devices in your car, though.


I have a GPS but I can turn it off when I don't want it, and I'm pretty sure it's off because it ceases to function when it's unplugged.


Do you also turn your phone off, because phones can be triangulated by cell towers.




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