Libertarian Beliefs and Automated Cars
Curated blog excerpt about automated cars, presenting libertarian beliefs , and explaining libertarian views on the subject. The application of libertarian philosophy expressed by the party or others may or may not universally represent Libertarian party beliefs on the topic for all adherents. ... For automated – note, not “autonomous” – cars to become other than a technocratic curiosity, to make the concept functionally viable on a mass scale, it will be necessary to eliminate cars that aren’t automated. That’s because the whole point of automated (not autonomous – which means independent ) cars is to collectivize transportation. To regiment and control it. Cars that are still entirely under the control of the person behind the wheel do not fit into this matrix. They are outliers, the vehicular equivalent of a voluntary income tax – and we can’t have that , either. Hence the proposal that all new cars be capable of so-called “vehicle to vehicle” (V2V) commu