I’ve been in these companies, so I’m not ‘anti’ self-driving cars.
That said...I don’t want the goal to always be giving me more time to work. I also never want the ability to drive the car to be taken away, which is almost inevitable. I like driving. I don’t want to find myself in a vehicle that is yielding to a mob that is coming for me. I don’t want the government to have an ‘off switch’ to my ability to travel.
Etc...that said, when the tech is good enough, I’d LOVE to be able to know, when exhausted, that as soon as I get to my car I can sleep!
“I don’t want the government to have an ‘off switch’ to my ability to travel.”
Too late every major car maker after 2018 or so has some form of Onstar,Bluelink, Fordpass..etc. Every major USA manufacture has those in every new car now. It doesn’t matter if you have the service on or not monthly the modem is always active and the remote functions including the kill command is always on its hard wired into the ECU it’s not some module you can share tree cut out the car will cease to run without the ECU. After 2026 every car sold must have a remote kill switch for police use to eliminate high speed chases and auto theft lowjack use. Ice and EV the mandate is for every vehicle sold in the USA power system doesn’t matter. One could try to jam the 4/5G signal but that takes a rather powerful multi spectrum frequency jammer which would be screaming to the Fed’s mobile triangulation vans that routinely run around major cities looking for GPS and cell phone jammers. It’s a 20 year felony to use a jammer that affects HPS because of aircraft safety, and additionally ten more years to use at cell phone frequencies. Jamming is something the FCC takes seriously.
Even if one keeps an old vehicle if the govt doesn’t want someone to drive they will just put their plate number into the pull over this person database. Automated plate readers are in a lot of police cars front and back and probably will be on all of them soon. It would be easy to also integrate traffic light camera feeds, tollway feeds at the one and off ramps plus red light cams and speed cameras.The average person passes 15 cameras a day its only a few hundred lines of code to get AI to grab every plate it sees and compare that to its no drive , no insurance or no valid licence database. Once it sees a violation the AI would send out a signal to the nearest officer located via GPS and issue a stop and detain notice. Or just mail the large ticket with a court appearance date, then a warrant if no show on that court date, with a no fly tag on the warrant due to flight from justice risk until bond is set and paid. The tech is already in place. There will be no hiding from the police state that’s already formed. Peoples seem to think only EVs have remote kill that is already false for nearly every major automaker selling in the USA they all beat the mandate by years. My 2009 SAAB had remote kill, I used it when a valet parking idiot took it for a joy ride and its geofence altered me. Onstar shut it down and the police went to arrest the valet guy for UUMV as clearly doing 95mph 5 miled from the concert was not in parking duties. My Volvo, F250, Expedition, and Telsa all have remote access , FordSync,Fordlink,VolvoOnCall, and of course Tesla link to the hive mind. If the dotgov doesn’t want me to drive they will just put the full weight of the state on my back and then it’s obey or jail or start start slotting floppies there is no hiding.