Business Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police - The system reportedly work by using an equipped automobile to detect when a nearby vehicle is traveling over the posted speed limit, it will use onboard cameras to capture an image of the speeder.

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DETROIT (WKRC) - The Ford Motor Company is attempting to patent a camera system that reports speeding vehicles to authorities.

According to WXIN, a patent application was filed by Ford titled "Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations." The application was published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 18, per the station.

Ford initially filed for the patent on January 12, 2023.

The station reported that Ford discusses using vehicles to monitor each other's speed in the application.

- How Ford's system reportedly works, per WXIN:
  • When an equipped automobile detects a nearby vehicle is traveling over the posted speed limit, it will use onboard cameras to capture an image of the speeder.
  • The equipped vehicle will then be able to send a report containing both speed data and pictures of the speeding vehicle directly to law enforcement or roadside monitoring units.
  • Car Scoops reported that authorities will also receive GSP location data.
  • Ford said in its application that the surveillance vehicles would make law enforcement's job easier because they wouldn't need to quickly identify violations and engage in pursuits, per WXIN.
  • Ford added that some of the work could be delegated to self-driving vehicles, which could also be equipped to detect speeders.
According to the station, because real officers wouldn't be present to witness the alleged speeding violation, it remains unclear what legal argument the automaker would have if it tried to implement the technology.

Speed cameras currently serve as stationary enforcement of speed limits, although they can only issue tickets based on a vehicle's license plate number because they are unable to confirm the driver's identity.

WXIN noted that Ford often files patent applications for emerging auto technology, but not all of those technologies make their way to production.

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...turn my vehicle into a mobile speed camera. Very cool.

Why even suggest this jesus christ you make the MUSTANG and the RAPTOR, two of the most speedingest vehicles ever made if around here is any indication.
 
With the current US laws, it'd be impossible for police agencies to do jack shit with them. When someone fights a ticket given with a stationary camera installed by the state, the first thing they're going to do is ask for the records that the device was calibrated properly. If they can't do that, how can they confirm you were speeding? Hell, it's pretty much the same tactic if a real cop pulls you over: ask to see if the radar they used was calibrated, although the cop has the advantage of being able to use his own car to pace you.

These are all known complications in a system wherein the state maintains constant custody and maintenance of the surveillance equipment used to catch the speeders. In this case, they'd have to contact the owner of the truck that snapped you and get him to bring his truck to a garage so he can have it inspected. Can you imagine the headache every Ford owner would have at getting a few of these requests a week? Even the most fuddy-duddy boomer with infinite time on his hands is gonna stop showing up after the third one of these or so. Can't find the truck that snapped you, no evidence, no case.

If they implement it at all, it'll be in the same way current speed cameras are implemented. They know it'll fall apart if you fight it, but you probably won't fight it. You're a busy guy, you've got shit to do, and you don't have a few days to waste in court. You'll probably pay the $160 and be done with it, especially since camera tickets virtually never add points to your license, at least in America.
 
A friendly reminder that civilization exists for you, friend. You, and everyone you know. It does not exist to help the police more easily and effectively do their jobs.
 
CHARizard said:
Why not just cut out the cameras, our GPS already track speed just have that report directly to the cops.

Hell, State Farm and other faggot insurance companies already do something similar.
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Same reason stationary speed traps have camera aimed to catch the driver's face: to prove it was you, stalker child, in the vehicle driving it when the violation was recorded, so you can enjoy prison.

I think you are mixing things up though. This isn't a tattletale system where your car reports you for speeding. The article is describing a vehicle that is a mobile speed trap.
 
They want people to stop using cars. They know they cannot just outright take them away, so they simply make them unreasonably expensive and a pain in the ass to use, so most people eventually give them up on their own volition.
You will own nothing, you will be forced to live in 15 minute cities, you will use the public, automated EV service and be "happy".
 
How much extra are they going to want new Ford buyers to pay for the Snitch-O-Matic 9000?
Like why even patent a device literally nobody wants installed on their shit? Are they expecting government kickbacks or something?
 
There's a word for the government policy of private-public partnerships like this... fuck I can't remember it though.
 
This would dropped the moment they realize niggers are the worst drivers on Earth, and each one is getting 50+ tickets a day.
 
Again, this is not a self-snitch device. Those already exist. Insurance companies offer discounts for using them voluntarily, and some driving jobs require them, or offer pay increases for their use.

Read the article. This is for a mobile speed trap. This is unlikely to damage Ford's revenue. A decent amount of Ford's revenue comes from fleet sales and service. It used to be that almost every cop car or taxi in North America was a Ford Crown Victoria. Now they're all Ford Explorers.

This is targeting that same market segment of police fleet sales. Imagine every cop vehicle on the road also being a photo radar trap (for the jurisdictions that have the budget to splurge for that option package). That is what this patent is trying to be.

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Regarding @Drain Todger's horrifyingly plausible point above, I think there are some intermediate steps that have to happen before that, with regard to cars, at least. First, Ford's idea here will need to be implemented and survive a field deployment. That field deployment will need to be successful, or at least spinnable as successful so it can be marketed and sold to other police departments. Then it needs to survive enough legal challenges that it's worth the headache and financial cost to the various police jurisdictions that buy it. Then it needs to stick around long enough, successfully enough, that it becomes socially normalized that all cop vehicles are also photo radar speed traps.

From the other side, self-snitch devices in personal vehicles need to continue to be normalized. Whether by the carrot of lower insurance rates or the stick of government mandate, it doesn't matter. What matters is everyone's car tattles on the driver, because that's just how cars are.

Once that's in place, it shouldn't be difficult to make your car snitching on all other cars hard to accept. After all, you automatically get fined every time you go down a hill, because it's impossible to brake just enough to not overspeed without being fined for braking too hard. Why should that stupid poor person in the lane next to you who can only afford a car from 2016 get away with going 1mph over the limit when you have to suffer? Police departments would probably love it, too. Not only would they have their own record of you not knowing how to use brakes down a hill, they would have witnesses.

We are not there yet. But this Ford patent, if successfully implemented, broadly deployed, and socially accepted, is potentially another brick in that wall.
 
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I can honestly say that thinking of this sort of use for the cars guidance cameras would never have occurred too me. The fact that there are people out there who DID think of this sort of use for such technology gravely concerns me.
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This is targeting that same market segment of police fleet sales. Imagine every cop vehicle on the road also being a photo radar trap (for the jurisdictions that have the budget to splurge for that option package). That is what this patent is trying to be.
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Spare me. The push to turn cars into Computers is not about making the vehicle more useful to the end user. Its all about making your Car the same as your Phone. A Piece of proprietary technology that you sign a license agreement for but do not own. And if you don't own it, then someone else does and they can do what they want with it.
 
Don't worry guys as soon as they see the racial stats on driving this will be declared racist because 9/10 black people would be getting the cops called on them every time they left the house
 
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