Future Ford Cars may drive themselves to impound lots if you miss a payme

[poker]

Ford's latest patent application shows a new way that cars could be repossessed in the future if their owners don't make payments on time.

The patent application, first reported by The Drive, was filed in August 2021 but wasn't published until last week. It shows that Ford is interested in building a system that would allow a car to lock out its driver and even repossess itself, if its driver doesn't keep up with payments.

If the owner is still behind on payments at this point, the car may take some pretty drastic action. It may autonomously drive itself to a spot "convenient for a tow truck to tow the vehicle." It could also drive itself to a repossession agency, lending institution, or impound lot. In yet another case, the repossession system computer may communicate with the computer of the lending institution to identify the car's market value. If it would cost more to repossess the car than the car is worth, the vehicle could even drive itself to a scrapyard.

- TCD Dearborn News, Michigan

 

[Ponderling]

Dystopian tongue in cheek reply follows:

By then there will be an AI on board.
You will be able to chat with it,
Drive it crazy by telling it, all the time, of the things in the Ford car that are not working properly.

It will talk back to the big momma AI at Ford
That AI will be programmed to heed the "Quality First" slogan/mantra, in that it will not be programmed to recognize that thus phrase is just marketing irony.
That will result in the AI slowing down production lines until all the quality problems are solved.
That will make sure the flow of new cars to the market will flow to a trickle.

And so the smart cars will kill the US auto makers.
Faster than the liability lawsuits that American lawyers will place on every instance of a stupid human behavior not being automatically correctly compensated by the in car AI 100% of the time

 

[Ref]

I plan to side with Humungus, the Warrior of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!

 

[HungSowel]

If ford made a car that could drive itself to the impound, I would be interested in buying one as it would also be able to drive itself with me in it.

 

[Valcazar]

Lock you out, sure.
Drive back to the lot isn't happening any time soon.