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Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed by astura on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:07PM (#34972636)
Repos are extremely costly. My friend let his car get repossessed because he did not need it anymore thinking they'd just be "even." He was surprised to get sued for the cost of the repo.
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Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed by chongli on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:14PM (#34972720)
I wonder how costly it would be if one of these self-driving cars killed a bystander while repo-ing itself.
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Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed by kube-system on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:26PM (#34972879)
Probably similar in cost to the people killed by human tow truck drivers.
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Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed by frumper on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:23PM (#34973618)
That sounds more costly for the tow truck driver than for Ford.
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Re:Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed by anigbrowl on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:41PM (#34975246)
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