Oh the wonderful driverless car.

We hear about all the companies that are working towards a self driving car. Many people are anxiously waiting for them to roll off the assembly line. They can’t wait to own one.

They sell a wonderful tale along with it. Just hop in, tell the car where you want to go and then sit back and relax while it does all the effort. You can watch videos, read your kindle, play a game, and then you’re there.

They tell you how efficient it will be, how many fewer accidents will happen.

You just have to give up control.

Control of your freedom.

You see, cars and driving is as American as it gets. Baseball, apple pie, and the open road. America was lucky enough to still have plenty of space when the automobile was coming into existence. Not like Europe, where tight roads, no parking areas, and nearly every inch accounted for. Not to mention lack of oil leading to importation and higher cost, mainly due to taxation.

You guys remember America right? The country that used to have freedoms? It's not a myth.

No, America had the space and the car was the means to explore it for the modern person. Cheap gas, wide open roads, and the freedom to go where you wanted. The car, YOUR car, was the way to do it.

It wasn’t that long ago that getting a drivers license was the top priority for every 16 year old. The first big step towards becoming an adult. Sadly, American teens having a license has decreased lately. A Texas study of 15-19 year olds showed 47% had a license in 2001, and it was down to 38% by 2009. 22% said they would NEVER get a license in their lifetime.

So of course the majority view of driverless cars is positive. Fewer people have the experience of driving in the first place! And based on the horrible drivers I see around me today, I bet those people would love driverless cars too!

Driverless cars is just another way to make the general populace even more like children. Hop in your car seat, buckle up, you don’t know what is best for you. Await your arrival, you will get there when we allow it.

Don’t even get me starting on things like government tracking, data collection, and all sorts of hacking that will naturally go hand-in-hand with the driverless car.

And the biggest one, a kill switch! Of course 'for emergencies only'. The government has them in your cell phones, and for the internet. They will not pass up the opportunity to have them for self driving cars. See SOP 303.

Let’s face it. The majority of people welcome control of their lives. They do what they are told. They buy the junk they are told to. They work 5 days and get 2 off. They try to cram everything they want to do in their life into those two days. And on it goes until they are too old to do much of anything. All the while, the efforts of their labor is siphoned off, like a cow getting milked.

For them, a self driving car makes sense.

To me, driving is satisfying. To know that you are a good driver, to feel confident and in control. To have the ability to quickly analyze the situation and figure out how fast you will need to be going to pass, or the exact time to merge. All those little innate things make our brains better at judging the physics of the world.

They will have their autonomous cars.

But not me. They will have to pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands.