Centralized control of motor vehicles is tantamount to centralized control of all human movements throughout the country. Even if we could do it, I don't think

Centralized control of motor vehicles is tantamount to centralized control of all human movements throughout the country. Even if we could do it, I don't think we should. Right now driving is a situation where you take your life into your own hands and have to accept some risk. But in return you have the ability to go anywhere anytime. Centralized control inverts that. Now you need permission to go anywhere. Does the government approve people like you going to a particular neighborhood? It becomes trivial to enforce basically anything you want. Especially, since people will not have any other options. Digitization enables new levels of control that we haven't really explored ethically. In the 1980s building a central automobile control system was unthinkable because it was impossible. Today it could be accomplished in a couple decades. So now we have to answer the question of 'do you have a right to go wherever you want on the public roads without government oversight?'