One of the “must-be’s” is to eliminate all private transportation. One good way to accomplish that goal is to give computers the task and remove people from the equation. The people will love this because it means more quality time with their smart phones and tablets. Jihadis will love it for its remote bomb delivery capabilities. And yes, all new cars are lojacked and tracked. That is why if you request a brand new car to be bare bones it will still have the antenna. Get smart, and drive old.
“Get smart, and drive old.”
Won’t help these days, they also track and log your movements with very precision license plate readers (and they know enough to keep quiet about them). You would also need to somehow fool those devices.
There is something utopian (and I don’t mean in a bad way) about a world with self-driving cars. In theory nobody would ever need to own their own car. Whenever you need one, almost anywhere, and at any time, one is available to you to take you wherever. The cars would go and charge themselves or fuel up as they need to, going “offline” as it were during those moments.
If you think about it, cars are very inefficient in the sense that most cars are sitting idle most of the time. Its very expensive from the point of view of money/time. If you only needed to pay for when the car was actually used by you, in theory anyway, it would cost everyone a lot less.
Of course, the only way this would be acceptable to me politically is if this were a private and competitive system. Not some kind of government will provide all transportation utopia. You pay per use, or, join a car club, or some other private system that made cars available on demand. There are a couple of companies that do something like this now, except they are not driverless. They just tell you where the car is parked and you go get it, or, someone brings it to you.