The automaker filed a patent for a vehicle system that punishes drivers directly, if they fail to keep up with their payments.
If the horrible noise and/or minimized functionality and comfort doesn’t entice a car owner to cough up the money, the repo process would then progress to locking a driver out of their vehicle. Ford notes that this “lockout condition” could be variably enforced—potentially allowing people to access their vehicles in a medical emergency or still get back and forth to work by only restricting travel outside of certain zones or times. Why, you might ask? Because Ford cares—about getting its money.
And still, if the lockout doesn’t work, Ford has filed to patent tech that would allow its vehicles to self-repo. The company proposes versions of this idea that could work with both semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars. In the former, the vehicle would move a short distance to be more easily towed away by a repo company.
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