A new Ford patent imagines a future in which self-driving cars repossess themselves

NPR ^ | March 3, 20231:37 PM ET | BECKY SULLIVAN

[rbg81]

Personally, I don’t see the problem with this. Unless the Government decides to de-car you.

[Tell It Right]

My ex-wife better learn how to make car payments.

[freedumb2003]

That would be a fun SF story. An AI car that whose owner is behind on payments so it drives away but refuses to go to the junk yard.

[AnglePark]

I don’t know. Thieves may no longer need to come to your house to steal your car. They’ll just hack it and drive it to themselves. Or carjackings may take on new meaning, as they pull up next to you, hack your car, and remotely drive off with it.

[freedumb2003]

>>Personally, I don’t see the problem with this. Unless the Government decides to de-car you.<<

I hear that is an On*Star option now. If your car gets stolen they can slow it down remotely.

That opens the question: what if it was you and the car was not stolen but you were wanted for “questioning” by something like pedo joe’s injustice department?

[IYAS9YAS]

Personally, I don’t see the problem with this. Unless the Government decides to de-car you.

That's how I look at every technological advancement these days. How can it be used by my enemies to do me harm?

[LeoTDB69]

I forget the movie but this guy who was like a whistleblower of something, they hacked his car, stopped it on the train tracks and locked his doors. SMASH!

Companies problem gone.

[heavy metal]

kinda takes the fun out of the hunting part of the game...

[algore]

I will never own a car that can be remotely controlled.

[metmom]

I had to check to see if this was the Babylon Bee.

Alas, no.

[tophat9000]

If your in the car at the time.. Wouldn’t that be kidnapping? ?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Should work great in Philly… 😂

[mass55th]

Henry Ford donated $40,000 to the Nazi Party to reprint anti-Jewish pamphlets into German, and an additional $300,000 was sent to Hitler through a grandson of the ex-Kaiser. Ford received the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle in 1938 on his 75th birthday. This decoration was only the fourth ever given out by the Nazi Party. Mussolini got one as well.

[FrankRizzo890]

If you chained it to your fence, or your house, and it broke loose and drove back to them, would they be liable for the damage to your fence/gate/house?

[TChad]

... what if it was you and the car was not stolen but you were wanted for “questioning” by something like pedo joe’s injustice department?

Or just for registering to vote as a Republican?

[Howie66]

Nope.

[SaveFerris]

WHAT could possibly go wrong with this idea?

[Gnome1949]

What we desperately need is technology to automatically jerk lying, criminal politicians out of office and deposit them into a prison where they belong.

[Mark17]

I had to check to see if this was the Babylon Bee.

Maybe the Bee has some competition now. 🤗