I agree.. we're rapidly approaching diminishing returns the same way a pressure cooker reaches the edge of its containment abilities.

That's just it you're not in plain view of all, only the people around you at any given point along your journey. Also, your travels aren't being recorded for posterity and monday morning quarterbacking by desperate bureaucrats or law enforcement looking to justify their jobs.

Traffic cams are also part of the problem.

Facts, correct or not, don't care what the reader 'views' or feels is undesirable.

Nah.. not the technology. the fucktards in charge who will use it..

Leaving your cell at home doesn't cost you your career or income.

You have that kinda backwards. It was soviet style governments who wanted to track their citizens. The USA is just the latest addition.

No. .they'll force you to install a tracking device for registration..or they'll just ban it out right.

Many said that about the nazis, then about the communists. Freedom and liberty are important, and the ignorance of those who would take them from you is a large part of protecting them. Otherwise, a society with zero privacy would be defined solely by the limitations of the law and law enforcement technology. What a shithole that would be. History (and current events) have shown us there's no shortage of insecure, single issue blowhards who want to force their 'utopia' upon the rest of us, so the fight's important regardless of the probability of success.

Try being a productive member of society without a car..good luck.

that doesn't protect you from the law, nor from others removing options from the market.

Well considering the state (federal and local) taxes are getting close to 40% of working/middle class income, there ought to be enough fucking money to maintain the roads without more/new taxes. Perhaps state officials need to prioritize for a change.

Soccer moms would vote yes for the children, and they outnumber us.

Which makes it obvious how stupid it is to use the word 'professional' in ways that imply superiority, yet dumb fucks like you do it all the time. Just because someone is paid for their work doesn't mean they're better at it than someone who isn't..or who isn't paid as much.

It's a shitty metric.

slashdot isn't targeted at newbs.

No the ascendancy of systemd is largely due to the dominant presence of redhat.