Ford patents autonomous vehicle repossession

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1138908_ford-autonomous-vehicle-repossession-patent

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Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 46d (4 replies)

Remember, some cars have essential systems looped through the 5g antenna. Check whether your car is one of them before clipping it with a pair of wire cutters, costing only $3.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 46d (2 replies)

What "essential" system could require a connection?

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 46d (1 reply)

I know someone that removed the comms on their newer lexus, it knocked out the whole screen, radio and HVAC but only after a few weeks later. The touchscreen displayed something like it "could not authenticate to validate subscription" with no way to move past it. Had to take it to a dealership and get the telemetry reconnected and reprogrammed to get functioning again.

toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 46d

That's not essential. That's asshole design.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 45d

just cover the fin with aluminum foil sealing tape from any hardware store.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 46d (4 replies)

We will own nothing

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 45d (3 replies)

I hate this corny phrase. There is no such thing as ownership. It's just the state enforcing the arbitrary claims of the privileged with violence.

This slogan is just promoting the capitalism that's causing the problem.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 45d

Ownership is a very real thing that's different from property.

NateNate60@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 45d

I hate this corny phrase. There is no such thing as violence. It's just the manipulation of objects that causes the molecules in an area to be disturbed in one particular way.

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 45d

Verbal diahorrea.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 46d

People gonna start booting their own vehicles.

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 46d (1 reply)

Man, Ford really doesn't want to sell any more cars, do they? I say let them have their "patent", and ensure that only Ford can do this kind of shit to their customers.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 5 pts · 46d

Yeah, Ford was my last two cars and I won't again.

dimjim@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 41d

Can't wait for vehicle jailbreaking to become the new norm!

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 45d

My next car will be a slate truck with no telemetry or something from 1995.

W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 45d
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 46d (1 reply)

How the fuck can you payent like borrowing a car.

I'll patent borrowing umbrellas.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 45d

Thr U.S. patent office is terrible. They'll approve any bullshit as long as the forms are in order.

fubarx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 45d

Just slap some tape over the sensors along the bumpers, side mirrors, and behind the rearview mirror. Best of luck to them getting it back to the repo-depot in one piece.

robomuffin79@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 46d (6 replies)

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 46d (5 replies)

Why use Biden for this? He took the train to work for decades and was the poorest president in I don't know how many years.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d (3 replies)

Wasn't he also the one who ordered a railway strike to end instead of letting unions negotiate a better deal for workers?

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 46d

Reagan, either Bush, Cheney, Trump are all better examples though.

robomuffin79@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 46d (1 reply)

And that is why bipartisan politics represent two sides of the same coin

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 45d

Be sure to thank the trans community for being sacrificed to appease your ideology.

robomuffin79@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 46d

😂😂😂😂😂 if that was your take from this meme, then that is why America is truly fucked!