That's exactly right. People don't really think about it, but a vehicle is an absolute necessity to freedom in the modern world. If you are homeless, but you still have a car, you're living on the edge, but the world is still completely open for you.
Right now, this second, you can get in your car and drive 1,000 miles away and start a new life. That's a stupid plan, but there is literally no reason you can't do it.
A car provides you with mobility, choice, adaptation, and it's all based on individual desires that are totally unknowable to a larger system.
On the other hand, public transport strictly regulates that movement to specific places, times, and events.
Honestly, think about a city builder like Cities Skylines. If you're zoning for high-profit, high-density office buildings in your city core, what you want to do is have public transportation that moves humans from their housing away from all your corporate and industrial structures, and floods them all into your dense core. Optimally, you convince them to sleep in ultra-dense pod complexes near the core of your city near your specified recreation facilities so they barely every have to move outside your corporate plantation. Density gives you power, control, and wealth under your thumb.
The car is an anethma to that which allows for individuality, spread, and a total lack of control by central authority.
This is the major element, yes. Currently you are able to use an untraceable vehicle and travel between cities or states without a tracking device like a phone. That makes you a threat.
I predict that as long as the current establishment holds power, they will continue en route to banning gasoline vehicles and anything that is not connected to the internet. That is one reason for the large push for "electric cars" recently. That also means you can monitor where and when a car refuels, and easily prevent somebody from operating their vehicle through software remotely.
I wonder if it's as simple as the car being fundamentally under the control of the individual, something that's anathema to lefties.
That's exactly right. People don't really think about it, but a vehicle is an absolute necessity to freedom in the modern world. If you are homeless, but you still have a car, you're living on the edge, but the world is still completely open for you.
Right now, this second, you can get in your car and drive 1,000 miles away and start a new life. That's a stupid plan, but there is literally no reason you can't do it.
A car provides you with mobility, choice, adaptation, and it's all based on individual desires that are totally unknowable to a larger system.
On the other hand, public transport strictly regulates that movement to specific places, times, and events.
Honestly, think about a city builder like Cities Skylines. If you're zoning for high-profit, high-density office buildings in your city core, what you want to do is have public transportation that moves humans from their housing away from all your corporate and industrial structures, and floods them all into your dense core. Optimally, you convince them to sleep in ultra-dense pod complexes near the core of your city near your specified recreation facilities so they barely every have to move outside your corporate plantation. Density gives you power, control, and wealth under your thumb.
The car is an anethma to that which allows for individuality, spread, and a total lack of control by central authority.
This is the major element, yes. Currently you are able to use an untraceable vehicle and travel between cities or states without a tracking device like a phone. That makes you a threat.
I predict that as long as the current establishment holds power, they will continue en route to banning gasoline vehicles and anything that is not connected to the internet. That is one reason for the large push for "electric cars" recently. That also means you can monitor where and when a car refuels, and easily prevent somebody from operating their vehicle through software remotely.