[copo233]

Even assuming that you are correct in your absolutely ridiculous assumption that self-driving cars are about controlling the movement of the population, why would you think it would be government control and not control of the company that is trying to develop the self-driving technology?

[userbinator]

All the articles posted regularly on HN about governments requesting data on users from companies --- and the latter obediently doing so --- aren't enough evidence?

[sdf4j]

Put aside your usual paranoid police-state governments, and you'll find companies have much more incentives to exploit user data.