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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This is a problem because there are times where the entire traffic flow goes above the speed limit. So you'd have a bunch of felons who were unironically trying to not get into an accident.

Unless the endgame is more meat for the prison slavery system. Either way, this is easily one of the reasons why low-tech cars > hi-tech cars. The only computerized part of your car should just be your phone.
 
Sithis said:
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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I wonder if they'll put latinos and to a latter extent middle easterners as white to fix the stats?
LurkTrawl said:
There's a word for the government policy of private-public partnerships like this... fuck I can't remember it though.
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I think I know but I can't decide between corporatism or crony-capitalism.
 
HarblMcDavid said:
...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.
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Someone already mentioned, but I'd be more concerned about it making your car into a snitch. Bet they wouldn't let you permanently disable it, either.
 
FailingUpwards said:
Yeah, not going to happen... Fords would be uninsurable due to how much vandalism they would get.
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Yeah cool now I have another reason to take a hammer to fords. Maybe next they'll patent an AI system that begs you not to smash them when you approach with butlerian jihad in your eye
 
draggs said:
Yeah cool now I have another reason to take a hammer to fords. Maybe next they'll patent an AI system that begs you not to smash them when you approach with butlerian jihad in your eye
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Jihad, you say?

Next up, cars that Aloha Snackbar themselves if it detects a weapon on your person! Take that, criminal scum!
 
This year from Ford.... drive in safety and convenience (at the legal speed limit) drive..... THE NARC!
 
Super Guido said:
Someone already mentioned, but I'd be more concerned about it making your car into a snitch. Bet they wouldn't let you permanently disable it, either.
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Oh I assumed the self snitch part was a given if we're already to the point of "mobile speed camera", I could swear they already filed a patent about remote killswitches for repoing if my memory of a few months ago serves...not a big leap from point A to point B when the car's computer already knows how fast you're going.
 
mindlessobserver said:
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.
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You are of course, completely correct. The drive to turn cars into computers that also incidentally transport goods and people is all about making them more profitable. But is it worth noting that all the little traps, all these little steps on a road to a technological dystopia, individually seem like good ideas in some way or another when viewed in isolation or in a narrow context. The people pushing for this kind of shit know that.

Apple didn't get everyone buying an iPhone by selling it as something that would strap you down and chop up your balls. They went, "Hey, you know how you always carry a cellphone? Check it out, we made it cool and useful. Now it has all these apps that let you do cool and useful things with it. No longer will your cellphone merely be some lame brick that just sits in your pocket. Now you can use it to do things, and everyone around you will know you are a superior being with superior taste, because you use our superior phone. And it's on sale now."

Apple would not have sold as many iPhones if they sold it as the iGenitalMutilator. Most people don't want their balls chopped up, troons notwithstanding. I'd wager even most troons did not initially yearn for castration. Nobody goes from McNormal Person to wearing slutty spinny skirts overnight. They were groomed into it, step by step, bit by bit, each step seemingly appealing or making sense on its own.

That's why I believe this is initially targeted towards police departments and local governments. Every patrol vehicle doubling as a photo radar speed trap would be appealing to police, because they'd get to automatically ticket every asshole on the road while still conserving their time for responding to more severe shit. Local governments would love the ticket revenue. With cities and the police departments hooked on the revenue, it's not too large of a jump to turn every car on the road into a photo radar speed trap. Local goverments would leap at the chance for more revenue. The expanding panopticon will be sold to the niggercattle as improving road safety. And all the while, Ford rakes in more money on patent and license fees.
 
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