Uber CEO’s Vision of a Driverless Future Is a Glimpse Into the Globalist Control Grid

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently predicted that within twenty years, every car on the road will be autonomous and that human driving will become little more than a nostalgic hobby—something people do “like horseback riding.” To the casual observer, it may sound like a futuristic forecast. But to anyone paying attention, it’s a window into a broader agenda to strip away independence, privacy, and human control from daily life.

Business Insider reports that in a recent conversation with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner, Khosrowshahi shared his vision for the future of transportation, predicting that all cars will be autonomous in around 20 years. This shift, according to Khosrowshahi, could lead to a significant reduction in private car ownership and an increased focus on safety metrics for autonomous vehicles.

For a century, the automobile has represented freedom—freedom of movement, of choice, of individuality. Americans don’t just drive cars; they live out one of the last tangible forms of liberty left in the modern world. The open road symbolizes the ability to go where you please, when you please, without permission. Khosrowshahi’s statement—delivered with the confidence of a man convinced of inevitability—exposes how Silicon Valley’s vision of progress is really a plan for centralized control.

“Humans are fallible, and I think there’s much less permissiveness for machines to make those kinds of mistakes, especially if those mistakes lead to fatality,” Khosrowshahi said during the MD MEETS podcast. He emphasized that as autonomous driving technology matures, machines will undoubtedly become safer than human drivers.

When the Uber CEO likens driving to horseback riding, he’s drawing a parallel to history’s industrial shift. Horses were once essential for transportation and labor. Then came machines, and within a generation, an entire way of life vanished. But horses didn’t just fade because of better technology—they were replaced by systems that consolidated power in fewer hands. The same will happen if cars become “self-driving” in name but government-controlled in practice.

Autonomous vehicles depend on continuous connectivity, data sharing, and regulatory oversight. Every mile driven by an AI car is logged, analyzed, and monitored. The human driver’s choices—routes, destinations, even speed—become obsolete, replaced by algorithmic efficiency and government-approved pathways. Imagine “safety updates” that restrict movement during protests, or “carbon quotas” that limit travel for environmental reasons. The infrastructure for that kind of digital leash already exists, and the elites know it.

Khosrowshahi, whose company has long embraced automation to cut labor costs, isn’t just speculating. He’s selling the idea that humans are the problem—too unpredictable, too emotional, too free. The technocratic world he describes is one where trust is placed not in human judgment but in machine obedience. Uber, Google, Tesla, and other AI giants are pouring billions into this future because it promises total control under the guise of convenience.

Once driving becomes “a hobby,” owning a car may soon follow. Why buy a vehicle when you can summon one owned by a corporation or managed by the state? Why bother with insurance, fuel, or maintenance when a cloud-based service can handle it all? That’s the trap: trade self-reliance for ease, trade freedom for automation, trade privacy for “progress.”

It’s no coincidence that this vision aligns with the World Economic Forum’s “You will own nothing and be happy” mantra. A driverless world isn’t just about cars—it’s about conditioning people to surrender autonomy. The same philosophy fuels digital IDs, programmable currencies, and surveillance infrastructure. Take away the steering wheel, and you take away one more layer of personal agency.

America’s founders built a nation on self-governance, not software governance. The right to travel freely without surveillance or restriction is part of what makes us free people. But to the corporate technocrats of Silicon Valley, the concept of freedom is outdated—a bug to be fixed.

If the future is driverless, it’s also directionless. A world that runs on algorithms leaves no room for human instinct, faith, or courage. It leaves no room for the kind of freedom that built this country. And unless Americans start recognizing that every convenience comes with a cost, we may wake up one day to find that even the open road has been paved over by control.