The goal is to make cars so expensive that the masses are force back to the city-gulag where they are more easily controlled.
No, actually the goal is better cars. Sorry to burst your paranoid anti-tech fantasies, but out here in reality people can and do afford cars, even fancy high tech ones you find irritating.
“The goal is to make cars so expensive that the masses are force back to the city-gulag where they are more easily controlled.”
A Honda Civic with the sensing package costs $23,000.
It can follow a curving road and prevent a collision between the car and a pedestrian (or another car).
$23K is not an expensive car.