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Ford Motor Company filed a US patent application that shows autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles could potentially repossess themselves if their owners miss lease or loan payments.

The idea of self-driving cars repossessing themselves might sound dystopian, but it is not surprising that automakers are considering this technology to ensure payment. Repossession is a common practice, and as we've described recently, cracks are beginning to form in the subprime auto loan market (read: here & here).

While this patent application was first filed in Aug. 2021 and formally published on Feb. 23, it could be years before Ford implements such a technology.

The patent, titled "Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle," explains how a future lineup of Ford vehicles would be capable of "[disabling] a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle."

If a driver misses a car payment, the vehicle will disable air conditioning, radio, GPS, and cruise control to irritate the driver.

If the owner misses more payments, the repossession cycle will worsen. The car would emit an "incessant and unpleasant sound." Worse, the vehicle might lock out the driver on certain days until payments are made.

And still, if the lockout doesn't work and payments are missed, the vehicle could drive to a safe, nearby location for a repo team to seize it and avoid confrontation with the owner.

It is worth noting that filing a patent application does not necessarily mean the technology will be implemented, but the takeaway is a glimpse of the dystopic future.

 

[Drain Todger]

The Virgin Corpo and the Chad Nomad is going to be a thing.

You got that right, choom.

The only difference between this and the status quo is that repo men will be out of the job. I've never met a repo guy, but if they are anything like tow truck guys; fuck them, I'm glad.

They're like the average tow truck driver crossbred with that Dog the Bounty Hunter asshole.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

No cars for hate thinking chuds. It’s for your own good.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Pay your fucking bills, lol. Who gives a shit what Ford does with a vehicle that they still own?

The CIA is going to love these systems.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

The issue is that you’ve said something very naughty, citizen and now your driving privileges are revoked. Or you’ve driven too many miles this week, and now we are shutting your car down for muh climate. Or you’ve driven in Oxford through too many 15 min zones this week and we are charging you (the last one is proposed in England…)
I object to all forms of repressive and controlling and dehumanising tech. It doesn’t stop the untermensch from fucking stuff up it just hits the law abiding.

That and just corpos getting hacked and the hackers just repossessed many of these vehicles to get scrapped for shits and giggles or more likely, to extort money out of people. People forgot the fucking gas shortage due to hackers of early 2021, which showed how behind the times the average corporation and American infrastructure in general is when it comes to security technology.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

If this system introduces a possibility of depriving one of our gods-walking-among-us POC of his ride to the liquor store/weed shop I'd expect the idea to get shitcanned fast as soon as that is brought up.

Also, the Rochester Q-jet is your friend - just adjust one random screw a quarter turn clockwise and you brick the car.

I had one that when I was 17 I must have adjusted a different screw because a little later I partially-de-bricked my parent's garage.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

shit like ktuner already fools around with the ECU easily enough that a bumpkin like myself can use one. i can't imagine it being too much of a stretch for it to un-zog the car while you're ricing it out. it's for hondas, sure, but if you've got a ford it should probably run away from home for your sake.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

GM actually tried to make a number of diesel engines based on a gas engine without changing much of the tooling and basic design. It ended up being a massive piece of shit and destroyed the reputation of diesel cars in the U.S. so much that it never really recovered.

If you have a diesel made before the new emissions standards, it's pretty easy to run on alternate fuels. New diesels, I doubt you can. Modern diesels run like shit from the factory, though.

GM is just plain retarded. The correct way to do it is to create a petrol engine block based off the diesel version. That's what BMW did with the B58 series of engines. The block is derived from the B57 diesel engine and the end result is a super robust block with lot of tuning potential.

 

[Cyborg Braphog]

The CIA is going to love these systems.

I thought most new cars were already pretty vulnerable to being tracked and hacked.

 

[kcbbq]

California passed a law that has basically left owners of ALL diesel vehicles 25 years old unable to register the cars. Any car with a diesel engine made before 1997 cannot be registered in the state, and therefore is illegal to drive.
Know a few people with diesel trucks that cannot drive their vehicles any longer.
Fuck Gavin Newsom and his stupid green laws.

The old ones spewed nitrogen and sulfur pollution which turned rain into nitric and sulfuric acid. Europe struggled with acid rain a lot longer than the US because of their idiotic diesel designs and fuels (most European diesel engines can't even pass 1970s US regulations).

If idiots could be trusted to not re-tune those engines to defeat the sulfur and nitrogen controls those trucks wouldn't need to be banned. Sane people don't really want sulfuric acid falling from the sky.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I thought most new cars were already pretty vulnerable to being tracked and hacked.

It will be one button press to kill the occupant with these.

 

[Cyborg Braphog]

It will be one button press to kill the occupant with these.

Hey if they're driving a Ford no big loss right?

 

[ZeCommissar]

What fucking low IQ, subhuman mongoloid would even consider buying a ford nowadays? With this combined with the 80-100% markups above MSRP you would have to be a fucking moron to buy a brand new ford.

 

[byuu]

You already have the technology to remotely disable a car and get its position using GPS.
So you'd just get repoman to pick it up - that's far more reliable.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

What fucking low IQ, subhuman mongoloid would even consider buying a ford nowadays? With this combined with the 80-100% markups above MSRP you would have to be a fucking moron to buy a brand new ford.

Credit given when due, the Maverick is a great little trucklet in the sea of mediocre that Ford has been putting out since the 80s. People who buy Fords either have some sort of Stockholm syndrome type brand loyalty, not car aware, or just plain retarded.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

GM is just plain retarded. The correct way to do it is to create a petrol engine block based off the diesel version. That's what BMW did with the B58 series of engines. The block is derived from the B57 diesel engine and the end result is a super robust block with lot of tuning potential.

GM's retardation runs deep. Part of that is penny-pinching stupidity that earns C-suite guys big bonuses but ends up rawdogging the company some way or another.

 

[darkprince56]

The issue is that you’ve said something very naughty, citizen and now your driving privileges are revoked. Or you’ve driven too many miles this week, and now we are shutting your car down for muh climate. Or you’ve driven in Oxford through too many 15 min zones this week and we are charging you (the last one is proposed in England…)
I object to all forms of repressive and controlling and dehumanising tech. It doesn’t stop the untermensch from fucking stuff up it just hits the law abiding.

You beat me to it.

especially with the dystopian shit our elites are proposing.

The Unabomber was right about technology being used to restrict your freedom.

And it's pretty obvious this feature will primarily be used to punish wrongthinkers rather than an economic benefit.

No cars for hate thinking chuds. It’s for your own good.

The CIA is going to love these systems.

Just you wait, this is testing the waters for when they force us into all EV's. It's the same reason they want digital wallets/currencies: another method of control & compliance.

You ran afoul of Big Brother Sam? Well look at that, your car won't start, it'll only charge up to a point, can't charge it at all, you'll have limited features, or you'll be geofenced in (oh you'll love those 15 minute cities!).

Same for that wallet. They'll now totally monitor its activity, deduct fines/taxes directly, restrict what you can buy/sell or freeze it outright. You wanna avoid all that? All you have to do is comply.
Ain't the future grand?

 

[Dysnomia]

And that's the thing that gets me especially with the dystopian shit our elites are proposing. None of them are niggerproof. Take the unmanned restaurant for example. Nothing is stopping Tyrone from literally cracking open the door and stealing all that good shit.

Cameras narcing you to the man? It is rayciss and it gets busted immediately.

Beautiful intricate surveillance system? Have fun trying to keep those running when Jay Shawn decides to take a piss on the substation with his buddies looting all the copper.

And the best part is, you can flaunt all the military power you want but that isn't going to stop a nigger from being a nigger. Also, in a weird round-about way, Africa may unironically become one of the best spots in terms of tech development... provided you get to the right tribes.

In the ghetto a lot of convenience and liquor stores are fully behind bullet proof glass. You tell the person behind it what you want and after you pay it gets pushed through a slot.

It won't go over in the ghetto. If Ford tries to pull this then we're in for some good entertainment. Your ride driving away without you? Jack that muthafucker. Bust a cap in its ass.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Pretty ballsy of Ford to assume that anyone will have any money to buy their shitty cars in the next couple of years.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Same for that wallet. They'll now totally monitor its activity, deduct fines/taxes directly, restrict what you can buy/sell or freeze it outright. You wanna avoid all that? All you have to do is comply.
Ain't the future grand?

Oh it will be. Set up 3rd world rules, get 3rd world reactions. Its gonna resemble 2077 with all types of underground economies popping up. People who have been burned by the system (Be it criminals or outlaws) are more than happy to set up alternatives like they do in shitholes and warzones already.

The prohibition didn't work out as it created smugglers and the rise of Al Capone. Trying to keep everyone as a have not in the 1650s is what led to Golden age of Piracy. And when companies decided that they aren't gonna ship their anime in other territories? Its how anime spread like wildfire through piracy. As retarded as people are, they are good at improvising.

A misc fun fact. In Africa, because robberies are so common and someone could just up and steal your shit, the niggers down there actually used minutes for a phone as a form of currency as it is possible to transmit those. In a continent without a formal banking app, the niggers improvised.

It won't go over in the ghetto. If Ford tries to pull this then we're in for some good entertainment. Your ride driving away without you? Jack that muthafucker. Bust a cap in its ass.

I won't put it past Tyrone and Jamal starting a biz jailbreaking cars. And if Globohomo does their edict of 'eat ze bugs' expect the niggers to start running underground farms for ez bucks.

I picture one day on the train station at night, a nigger would try and sell boiled eggs as if it were crystal meth.

 

[Staticness]

Oh it will be. Set up 3rd world rules, get 3rd world reactions. Its gonna resemble 2077 with all types of underground economies popping up. People who have been burned by the system (Be it criminals or outlaws) are more than happy to set up alternatives like they do in shitholes and warzones already.

The prohibition didn't work out as it created smugglers and the rise of Al Capone. Trying to keep everyone as a have not in the 1650s is what led to Golden age of Piracy. And when companies decided that they aren't gonna ship their anime in other territories? Its how anime spread like wildfire through piracy. As retarded as people are, they are good at improvising.

A misc fun fact. In Africa, because robberies are so common and someone could just up and steal your shit, the niggers down there actually used minutes for a phone as a form of currency as it is possible to transmit those. In a continent without a formal banking app, the niggers improvised.


I won't put it past Tyrone and Jamal starting a biz jailbreaking cars. And if Globohomo does their edict of 'eat ze bugs' expect the niggers to start running underground farms for ez bucks.

I picture one day on the train station at night, a nigger would try and sell boiled eggs as if it were crystal meth.

If fucking hood rats start eating better than people with jobs and working within the law, it will be a sad day. That being said, broke urbanites are getting forced into pods and not suburbanites with money, and most of the urbanites (as spoken for by their grifter masters) seem to be for it.

You get what you fucking deserve.