Waymos (Google) and Zoox (Amazon) are staging a coup against Uber (who staged a coup against the taxicab industry). There is ample public outrage surrounding the ethics of replacing jobs with robots and diverting profit to the established tech monopolies. These are entirely valid and justified criticisms (...which are covered here: ...post name here...).

Hitting rewind for a second, cars have been (d)evolving into vehicles of surveillance for over a decade. Modern cars have: Full smartphone integration, embedded "iPads" in console, internal and external cameras.

Question: Once every thought and feeling are capitalized on for targeted advertisement and every action can be nudged using finely tuned behavioral profiles, how does a company conform to the infinite growth model of capitalism?

A potential and speculative answer: Companies started to capitalize on real-world data, including geo-spatial tracking, over ten years ago -- a perfect test run for autonomous vehicles :)

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