I wonder how you would drive a vehicle across an area that was not a mapped road? For instance private property like big ranches, national forests etc...
Seems the government can also have control over your car like in the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report and basically drive you where ever they want you to go.
I thought of this last night, our society is in a push to “tech-up everything” in the name of cutting labor costs and making less human error. The down side I see to this is that over half of our population is too stupid to make the jump to the “panacea futuristic” world we sometimes see on tv where every one is released from manual labor to pursue higher callings and the world is all good. That leaves technology taking the jobs away from people who will never rise above the labor type jobs (some may not want to ex: real cowboys) and thus causing even more disparity in the classes. Will that tipping point come and cause those to get on board, get weeded out, or rebel? I am thinking #3.
It would be also a handy way for the government to slowly section off no go zones, and the population eventually forgets those zones because there is no way to get to them on foot, unless you want to walk 100 miles or more.
Great minds think alike. Yes, I think it will be some version of what you say. I don't see the "rebel" option though (not very soon anyway). Americans are getting too soft for that, and the checks (even if devalued) will keep coming from Uncle Sam. Technological and productivity advancement will be what saves the high debt, money-printing, low-labor participation welfare state from collapse.