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<blockquote data-quote="Aurini" data-source="post: 1179257" data-attributes="member: 4778">Maybe it's time to revisit that.Having a gun is a right - but if I walk around cocking it all the time because it makes me feel like a bad ass, I'll be arrested for brandishing and that right will be revoked.The right to own a car is really the right of travel.&nbsp; You cannot walk between towns; nor can you ride a horse.&nbsp; Free movement requires a vehicle, and the convenience of a centrally-controlled autonomous rent-a-ride offers a way to undermine this freedom indirectly.This wouldn't be the first time the Bugmen have restricted movement.&nbsp; During the Cold War, you had to have an Internal Visa with you to travel anywhere outside of your jurisdiction.&nbsp; The autonomous car could be used in a similar manner: prove that it's 'safer' through rigged statistics, then put a Carbon Tax on real vehicles because of bad science, and soon enough you have even more docile soyboys who jump onto the transit, pre-screen themselves at airports, and grow nervous whenever you discussion of rights starts to sound like lack of party loyalty.And don't tell me this is the Slippery Slope fallacy: the past fifty years have been nothing but Slippery Slope reality!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aurini, post: 1179257, member: 4778"] Maybe it's time to revisit that. Having a gun is a right - but if I walk around cocking it all the time because it makes me feel like a bad ass, I'll be arrested for brandishing and that right will be revoked. The right to own a car is really the right of travel. You cannot walk between towns; nor can you ride a horse. Free movement requires a vehicle, and the convenience of a centrally-controlled autonomous rent-a-ride offers a way to undermine this freedom indirectly. This wouldn't be the first time the Bugmen have restricted movement. During the Cold War, you had to have an Internal Visa with you to travel anywhere outside of your jurisdiction. The autonomous car could be used in a similar manner: prove that it's 'safer' through rigged statistics, then put a Carbon Tax on real vehicles because of bad science, and soon enough you have even more docile soyboys who jump onto the transit, pre-screen themselves at airports, and grow nervous whenever you discussion of rights starts to sound like lack of party loyalty. And don't tell me this is the Slippery Slope fallacy: the past fifty years have been nothing but Slippery Slope reality! [/QUOTE]

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