Re:Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away If...
by smegger001 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:01PM
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Yeah what happens when someone gets out to pump gas with their child and phone in the car and fords automated repo algorithm decides is the optimal time to drive away.
Re:Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away If...
by tangjurine on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:32AM
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Ford stock goes down 5%, media hushes it up
Re:Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away If...
by giobox on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:27PM
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Everyone assumes the tech will be self driving, but it doesn’t need to be.
The repo man can just use the 5G connection to locate the car, drive to it, unlock the car start the ignition and drive it away.
This would work today just using the APIs all modern Fords already have.
There are rumours this already happens for some car models:
> https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotel...
The idea of a vehicle repossessing itself does bother me. In the early 2000s I bought a vehicle from Mitsubishi, financed through them. At the time, setting up an automatic payment through them cost a monthly fee, so I set it up through my bank instead.
About 3 years later I got a call from them threatening repossession because I was three months behind on payments. I checked and every payment had been sent.
It turned out that Mitsubishi Motors East had transferred my loan to Mitsubishi Motors West, or something like that, and I had missed that. It was probably in one of the statements I never bothered opening.