Ford patents a car that can REPO itself.

[Detective D]

As the title says....


This is coming on top of systems that will disable your car remotely if your payment is missed(these already exist).
Isn't it comforting to know someone behind a computer screen miles away can control your car? Wait, scratch that, replace someone with "infantile A.I" What could possibly go wrong.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Guy working for Ford Credit in Connecticut 1970 asked me to go NY to repossess a car. He said $200 to do it he had the address where car was parked, he'd give $50 for tolls and gas. Started to think why doesn't he have one of his guys do it. Ding probably something illegal about this. I can picture me in this repo car now a stolen car and get caught. Told no can do.

 

[WileE]

So, if your autonomous electric Ford Pinto is connected to Skynet, the Terminator can repo your car. Lesson: Make your payments you signed a contract for ! It's NOT your car until the last penny is paid, deadbeat !

 

[RemCharger]

Pretty sure a tesla could already do that

 

[Big Bad Dad]

If they can do this, what else could they get your car to do, against your will? Scary, in this day and age.

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[chargervert]

So, if your autonomous electric Ford Pinto is connected to Skynet, the Terminator can repo your car. Lesson: Make your payments you signed a contract for ! It's NOT your car until the last penny is paid, deadbeat !

Supposedly they are saying that the car can return itself to the dealership. What if they make a mistake and take the wrong car? Ford has made many mistakes over the years. This is yet another reason to never own a Ford product. I have never owned one and never will, the Pinto was enough to keep me away from owning them back in the seventies!

 

[JR_Charger]

If they can do this, what else could they get your car to do, against your will? Scary, in this day and age.

Drive you to the gulag for wrongthink.

 

[WileE]

Supposedly they are saying that the car can return itself to the dealership. What if they make a mistake and take the wrong car?

You are not the owner until the last penny is paid. The bank/lienholder is on the title.

 

[chargervert]

You are not the owner until the last penny is paid. The bank/lienholder is on the title.

I understand that, I have paid off several loans on cars and property, what I said is what if the repo the wrong car, you have been making your payments on time and you come out and find out that your car drove itself back to the dealership! I want no part of a car capable of doing that.

 

[QuickBpBp]

Just wait till you don't "think" like the ones currently in charge or the alphabet media... Shut your car down then seize bank accounts like they do in Canada.. No Thanks!

 

[chargervert]

It's all coming including a social credit score, once cash is eliminated not only can they tax every transaction, but they will be able to shutdown your finances if you don’t comply to their rules and regulations with the click of a mouse. Then when you can't pay for your car because they shut off your accounts, you can watch your Ford drive out of your life! The future's so bright,I gotta wear shades!

 

[Triplegreen500]

Don't forget - once you pay it off....they still have that button.

Systems can be hacked.

New, exciting form of theft.

 

[JR_Charger]

What are you guys worried about? If you have to run, you've already mapped out your social network on Facebook. Your phone has been recorded going every place you know. Your voice print has been recorded. Every place you can get fuel or food has a camera on it that can recognize your face. If there's a need to charge you with a crime, kiddie **** can magically appear on your networked devices. It wouldn't surprise me if every one of us has a few hidden files that can decrypt when given a remote command and boom, you've got 50 counts of CP.

 

[chargervert]

What are you guys worried about? If you have to run, you've already mapped out your social network on Facebook. Your phone has been recorded going every place you know. Your voice print has been recorded. Every place you can get fuel or food has a camera on it that can recognize your face. If there's a need to charge you with a crime, kiddie **** can magically appear on your networked devices. It wouldn't surprise me if every one of us has a few hidden files that can decrypt when given a remote command and boom, you've got 50 counts of CP.

All controlled by the same people who have drag queens reading books to your kids in the school library!

 

[JR_Charger]

Fortunately my adult life was filled with one depression, great recession, or non-recovery economic recovery after another, and I didn't have kids.

 

[#41]

Perhaps a commentary on the typical Ford owner?

Next: Class action defamation suit against Ford by Ford owners.

 

[68-500]

You think its just Fomco? GM onstar, whatever Chrysler has. My wife can start her 2016 300 from her phone. Electric power steering, ads brakes? Id bet money they could completely disable most any car these days.

 

[Triplegreen500]

whatever Chrysler has

UConnect

 

[68-500]

UConnect

Ya thats it.