Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but its not clear how having BigBrotherCam in the cabin makes it any less of an intrusion on personal liberties when the insurance company and federal government collude to tell me I'm not allowed to drive my own car.
constant tracking will do more than affect your car insurance, if you have any habits deemed unhealthy, your insurance company will get involved. if they see you stumbling to and from your car drunk every weekend/weekday or perhaps you are travelling in bad parts of town. your insurance rates may begin to skyrocket. there is no end to where big brother can fuck you.
they tried or are trying to get shit like that passed in NJ. a camera "timestamps" your car as it passes a certain point and then when your car hits another point, that camera "timestamps" you there too. this way if it only took you 30 seconds to travel 2 miles then they fucking got you. i believe they tried to do this with your ez-pass . people were getting speeding tickets in the mail with their ezpass bill or something.
Self driving bro. This is my future. Booze, blowjobs and bars.
Question is whether that's a good thing or not. Right now you have a X mph road that everyone travels X+10 on and gives police officers an easy reason to pull everyone over, but everyone is generally happy with the speed.
What's funny about this is that until there is widely accepted V2V communication, the opposite will be true. You know how you drive on the freeway during rush hour and most people are driving 70mph+ like 2 car lengths away from the car in front them? An autonomous system will say fucking nope to that and drive much more cautiously. That's a good thing, but the space required for an autonomous car will be larger than a meatbag car for a long time because they are going to be cautious.
