Here is one right out of 1984.
Ford is working on a patent for cars that will rat out other motorists for speeding. If a motorist exceeds the speed limit, the car will contact the police and automatically report them to them. Only a super liberal would want this car.
Are they going to wear Brown Shirts? It sounds like it could possibly be unconstitutional.
This is for real!
Is Ford trying to patent a way for its cars to report speeding drivers to the police? An article in Motor Authority notes that this patent application from Ford was filed on January 12th of 2023 — and just published 11 days ago by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In the application, Ford discusses using cars to monitor each other’s speeds. If one car detects that a nearby vehicle is being driven above the posted limit, it could use onboard cameras to photograph that vehicle.
A report containing both speed data and images of the targeted vehicle could then be sent directly to a police car or roadside monitoring units via an Internet connection, according to Ford. Using vehicles for speed surveillance would make cops’ jobs easier, as they wouldn’t have to quickly identify speeding violations and take off in pursuit, Ford notes in the application.
The automaker adds that it also means some of that work could be delegated to self-driving cars. They could be equipped to detect speeding violations.
Ford has also tried to patent a “night drive mode” that would limit vehicle speeds at night for everyone — including first responders.
This is the company working on a patent for repossessing itself if the owner doesn’t pay the bill. It will put the repo man out of business.
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Perhaps a few well-placed strips of tape would resolve this bug/feature…
The ((people)) behind this gulag they want to implement, need to get got before they ruin life on earth.
It’s nothing new: General Motors has the same tech with “onstar” , Testa has five cameras in their cars, no way to avoid this unless you drive a pre 2008 vehicle. I worked at Motorola in Seguin Tx. back in the 80’es, Ford was the first major car company back then to use those chips to control the fuel injection systems, that spread to all aspects of the car and eventually to the peripheral devices, i.e. even back then, the processor could for example, temporarily turn off the ac compressor during acceleration to give more boost in speed.
Digital / analog processor controlled cars have now evolved into over engineered mobile computer / data centers where all the driver does is sent via telemetry to the vehicle’s manufacturer and / or other government entities wanting that info.
We are truly in a dystopian “big brother” world !
F O R D spelled backwards means, Driver Returns On Foot.
Which will probably increase. Nobody likes a Narc.
Do you remember when Prez Johnson had his war on poverty and the cartoon showed the people at the office surrendering to poverty? Well, we might as well come clean and surrender to every wrong that we do to our saintly government. We can all live in a national prisons where only the privileged can live outside. Considering how idiotic these ideas are it is amazing that there is any piece of the United States of America left. Dumb and DUMBER!
Any “snitching” cars should be smashed into a heap of metal on the dealer’s lot.
How about a device that allows police to disable a car involved in a police chase. I see too many chases on TV where it is very dangerous and puts peoples live at risk. I personally think running from the police like that deserves a severe beating like in the old days but they can’t do that anymore. A device that disables a car would be good.
Ahh, how about NO.
You’ve gotta be a liberal Democrat …
The problem with that is that the police could disable any car for any reason, even cars of people who have done nothing wrong, and then lie about it, and they would not be accountable.
In Canada they froze the bank accounts of the Freedom truckers
they could immobilize your car simply because you are on your way to a protest, maybe you are bringing sandwiches and water to people like the Freedom truckers or you donated money to a cause the liberal government does not like.
Tyrants always abuse their power, and liberals have tyrants DNA.
No thanks “Doctor.” Have another “vaccine.”
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