Uber is a strategic partner of the WEF ( as, incidentally, are Google and Apple ). Uber, Google and Apple, have been rolling out a system of self-driving cars ( and trucks, trailers, camionettes ... ) for many years.
In 2016, Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber, stated that we will soon no longer have a car.
The WEF made a video about it ( yet another in a line of many ). https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/uber-travis-kalanick-driverless-cars/
The rollout of self-driving cars ( and trucks ) will have a major impact on employment and the millions of truckers ( and taxi drivers and everyone else who travels frequently on a professional basis ), according to the WEF. Between the lines : they will all become unemployed.
We, the plebs, will no longer have a car but will be transported by self-driving cars that will pick us up whenever we need to move around. Read between the lines : of course, our movements will be restricted and strictly controlled. Not we but they will decide whether we are allowed to move around, when and to where.
In the video, you can see that WEF predicted that ten million self-driving cars would be in circulation by 2020 ( in the West, that is ). Surely that failed generously because we are 2022 and self-driving cars are still a pipe dream. Does this mean the WEF will not try to push its plan through ? Unfortunately no. Google has already mapped the road network in much of the world. However, the governments of the nations that are the subject of the plan have not yet made investments to enable self-driving cars ( and trucks ) on the road network and the auto industry has dropped out. After all, a self-driving - electric - car is chock-full of electronics that are not available.
But. it is abundantly clear that the plan is being worked on. Even in Belgium where new legislation has already been enacted in 2020 and 2021 to ban petrol and diesel cars and their sale. Everyone has to drive electric but there is not enough gravy for that so we will all have to leave our car in the garage at some point anyway because of either no petrol/diesel or no electricity.
It will - against WEF's wishes - just take a bit longer than she had hoped. And much longer to none at all if we raise our middle finger and refuse the whole thing.
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