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I've been wondering if the combination of remote work and self-driving cars will counteract the increasing surveillance of urban centers. Does suburbanization/sprawl make surveillance too expensive to be practical?

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The self-driving cars can act as super surveillance systems by themselves though.

I never thought about that. If the police could quickly connect to any parked/moving car and see what its cameras saw that would be like eyes just about everywhere.

BRB: Going to look for that line item in Tesla's public financials... (Come on, it's not like Musk wouldn't have talked this over with Thiel, right???)

It's worse. Every frame captured is stored somewhere. Five years from now they can track your movements by picking out the sequence from cars that drove past you.

You'd wish, but I think there will definitely be home office surveillance in the employee contract if the economic situation of recent years continues.

Suburbanization also makes satellite surveillance easier and "acustic" face to face interaction much more difficult.

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