But what are you all gonna do when you are longer allowed to drive it on public roads?
This will happen.
That's a realistic question IMO.
There definitely is a belief that a
certain group wants both the ability to track your every location as well as control when/where you can transport yourself. Either by taking away your freedom of driving yourself, or having a remote switch that can disable your vehicle on the spot with a click of a button.
Ahem, I mean they want automated cars for our safety and the environment and <insert almost valid reason here>, and will slowly funnel restrictions in that direction...until we are all...safe.
Some countries have already set a deadline for an outright ban on gas vehicles.
Some provinces in my country (Canada) are, or have already imposed stronger vehicle emissions designed to take the majority of "older" vehicles off the road.
(despite the relaxed environmental limits on industry and commercial transportation, and studies showing that public vehicle pollution is an extremely small contributor to world pollution when compared to these other industries, etc).
It is becoming a lot more difficult to purchase used auto parts in Canada than it used to be.
When parts are available, they are often magnitudes more expensive than the same part in the United States. (A simple restriction of auto parts from US to Canada would cripple my ability to maintain my Jeep...I hope that doesn't happen soon).
This could be simple economics...or it could be something else.
You don't have to outright "ban" old vehicles if you restrict the ability to repair vehicles to only the "rich" people. That problem will take care of itself over time.
I do think it will become much more difficult financially, socially and legally to drive our TJ's in the future. Many people will turn against them and look down upon those drivers as unsafe and poisonous to the world.
Much more difficult to drive anything that cannot be remotely controlled/monitored.
(But people will want this remote control...it makes other things more convenient).
But I think it will be a slow process (
which helps public "buy-in"), and won't be fully complete within the time-frame of my life.
There is also a counter-belief that it's financially better for these groups to keep people continually financially dependent on vehicles - so they will want to keep vehicles on the road. It's just that they want them to follow the "cell-phone" lifecycle, where you buy a new one every 3 years instead of repairing your current one.
Apologies for the "conspiracy" rant. I truly hope it's just a paranoid conspiracy, written for your entertainment/displeasure...and never happens.
