Driverless cars that decide whether they will accept you are coming

Our Take

We haven't verified every claim in this video from the Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency channel, but the premise lands on something we think about constantly: autonomous systems making judgment calls about human beings with zero transparency and almost no recourse. Whether it's a driverless car app deciding you're not a good enough risk to ride, or a Flock Safety camera flagging your plate for a reason you'll never see, the pattern is the same — opaque algorithms making consequential decisions about ordinary people, with corporations and police departments treating the logic as proprietary and untouchable.

That's exactly the problem with ALPR networks blanketing American neighborhoods right now. You don't get a say in whether your plate gets logged, cross-referenced, or shared with federal agencies and data brokers. There's no 'decline to be scanned' button. The infrastructure just runs, building a permanent record of where you've been, and increasingly these systems are being stitched together with other automated gatekeeping tech — facial recognition, risk scores, now potentially 'acceptance' decisions from autonomous vehicles themselves.

Credit to the creator for pushing people to think critically about where this is all heading. Our job at DeFlock is to make sure the automated surveillance piece of that puzzle doesn't stay invisible. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your routes, and hit up our take-action page if you want to push back on it locally.