"In the future it will be forbidden for safety reasons for people to drive cars," predicted Raul Rojas, professor at Berlin’s Free University (FU). "The cars of today are the horses of yesterday."

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Counterpoint: Freedom Über alles

if the car was doing 6 MPH over the speed limit, who would get the ticket? He said it would not be possible for the car to exceed the speed limit.

Being a thinker, I wondered what about if one of the lights were out in the car, also a violation? What if the speed limit had changed due to construction? Anyone that has a modern GPS will realize the speed limits displayed on them are not always up to date. Then there is inclement weather, such as fog.There are any number of statutory issues when you take the human driver out of the equation yet still have a motor vehicle moving on a roadway.

Fortunately, all the Florida bill will do is allow for testing.

If we lose the ability to travel as we please, which our vehicles allow, then we’ve lost essential liberty.