News Analysis Technology regulations emanating from Beijing are a foot in the door that may someday take away your right to drive. This month, Mercedes-Benz is opening a tech center in Beijing with 1,000 engineers and $170 million in new equipment. Top of mind for the engineers will be preparing Mercedes-Benz for 2025, when all new cars in China will likely be required to be V2X-capable, meaning they can communicate with “everything” from other vehicles, to roads, smart traffic lights, road cameras, 5G towers, and satellites through centralized data servers that are themselves easily controlled by governments. Now envision those networked cars with artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous driving capabilities and no need for a steering wheel. What used to be the freedom of driving has now reduced drivers to passenger pulp, to be transported along government-approved routes, to government-approved jobs, and back to government-approved apartments. Networked driverless cars are likely …