Charles C. W. Cooke writes here about the privacy problems with self-driving cars. As often with privacy issues, the devil is in the details. Cooke begins with a fundamentally valid criticism: most people will not own self-driving cars, but will buy access to them on an ad-hoc basis from companies like Uber and Lyft. The implications for privacy from such a cultural shift are serious and should not be minimized. However, Cooke seemingly goes on to argue that it doesn't matter who owns the hardware, because self-driving is inherently not private:
>Regardless, everyone will suffer from the catastrophic loss of privacy. Any network of self-driving cars would, by definition, necessitate total and unceasing tracking of their occupants. I may know how to get to the local liquor store without a map, but my car most certainly does not. To make it there in a driverless model, I'd first have to tell it where