In the past 50 years, policymakers have saddled car drivers with an immense array of rules and regulations designed to turn drivers into virtual slaves. Licenses, taxes, fees, government inspections, registrations of all kinds, traffic cops pulling drivers over at gunpoint to issue citations for minor infractions.
Upon being pulled over at gunpoint, drivers are frequently subjected to yelling, intrusive and embarrassing inquiries. Cops in some jurisdictions have been caught subjecting car travelers to body-cavity searches without warrant. On Friday and Saturday evenings–in most communities–cops menace the roadways, constantly harassing drivers and seeking to identify drivers who have had a few drinks.
But technology developed by innovators in the private sector will soon render the government’s obsession with controlling car travel as antiquated as the buggy whip. The Associated Press is reporting that innovators have perfected driverless cars to such an extent that they are preparing a 3,500-mile, cross-country trip by autonomous car.
Already there are multiple driverless cars on the roads in Michigan and California, and these cars have yet to be issued a single traffic ticket.
Autonomous cars will provide a safer means of personal transportation than a human can provide. A completely-drunk individual will soon be able to pour himself into an autonomous car and tell the car to take him home. AND THE CAR WILL DRIVE THE INEBRIATED PASSENGER HOME MORE SAFELY THAN THAT PERSON COULD DRIVE HIMSELF IF HE WERE COMPLETELY SOBER.
We must all work to keep the grubby, bloodstained hands of the state off of this new technology.
