Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
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Re: Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
#2Ford (or any finance company) will presumably offer cheaper financing if they know that their repo costs are lowered by this functionality.
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#3Leave it to Ford to find even more and novel ways to make their customers walk.
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#4I've known a couple of possessed Fords.
I think antique car restoration and modernization is going to be a great business to be in for the next 20yr or so. At least the demons in older cars can be propitiated with minor rituals like a fetish hung on the mirror or the occasional blood sacrifice.
This shit is going to lead to hilarious scenes of cars flocking places because of a node.js bug.
edit: i forsee "car leashes"; probably something in the nature of a parking boot so make sure the car stays immobile or becomes nonviable. And there's always the trick of jackstands and hiding the wheels at night.
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#5I was just joking about this with a friend, an engineer at Cruise. You don't pay and GM can tell the car to drive off. He laughed like it wasn't that far from the truth.
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#7Uhm, it seems like the auto industry is still letting its imagination run away with self driving cars.
I don't see how a patent like this can be granted if we still generally don't have working self-driving cars. Even Tesla is getting forced to admit that "Full Self Driving" isn't really full self driving.
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#8This is why buying as low-mileage a used car you can get from ~2010 or older is wise. Especially one with a keyed ignition vs. push start.
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#9This isn't surprising at all. It's basically DRM for a physical object.
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#10Great, now we're going to get country music about how some guy's truck left him.