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800XL ,

Surprised it took this long. Well, guess that means it’s time to faraday cage the 5g radios in the vehicles or find a way to create a super small jammer that can only broadcast in your car. Some sort of license plate blocker that only shows at a certain angle too.

Fuck that shit.

Reverendender ,

You can get the license plate thingies on eBay

PriorityMotif ,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

License plate blockers are illegal in most states now because of the implementation of privately owned license plate readers that track you and sell the data back to police.

sndmn ,

Are they trying to sell fewer vehicles?

friend_of_satan ,

“But if we market it as a subscription service, then surely customers will want it” - Some clueless executive

adarza ,

it’ll be something the cops subscribe to, and car owners will have no say.

mars296 ,

What they should do is give the car owners a cut if the ticket fees. They would have people patrolling the streets to catch speeders. There also be a big uptick in vandalism of Fords. I would love to watch this experiment with some popcorn.

friend_of_satan ,

Dude! Yes! We definitely need more companies treating 1984 like an instruction manual. /s

joyjoy ,

Pay to lose

turbowafflz ,

Ooh yes good patent it so other manufacturers won’t do it. It’s a win-win since I already wouldn’t want a ford

Edit: what it uses cameras to look at other vehicles??? That is much worse

pete_the_cat ,

Yep, it snitches on other cars!

deweydecibel ,

Let’s be real, close to a majority of Americans have no issue with their iPhone being used as part of a mesh tracking network, even if it helps abusers with airtags.

All they have to do is sell this to people as benefiting them, and they will gobble it up. Hell, chances are, insurance companies will start offering reduced rates if you drive one (and then they buy the data from Ford and increase rates with it).

BruceTwarzen ,

Instead of paying 2000 dollars a month for your shitty lifted ford ranger you pay 1500 a month for your shitty lifted ford ranger, but the car will… SHUT THE FUCK UP, WHERE DO I SIGN?

2xsaiko ,
@2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The massive difference between AirTags and this is that AirTags (and the whole Find My network, it’s not only AirTags after all) actually provide a useful service to each participant, namely locating their things if they get lost somewhere. This does effectively nothing for you and will only ever fuck over other people (you could argue rightfully so, but still) and provides no value to anyone other than the police.

fmstrat ,

Welcome to UPS trucks.

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

And Amazon, and FedEx, and UPS, and DHL...

fmstrat ,

I a totally meant FedEx. But I thought they were the only ones with police contracts?

Chozo ,

Ooh yes good patent it so other manufacturers won't do it.

Patents don't necessarily stop other OEMs from using it. It just means they'll have to pay Ford a fee to license it, themselves.

eestileib ,

Ooh that’s gonna get your car keyed.

TransplantedSconie ,

You have a strange way of writing molotov cocktailled.

BruceTwarzen ,

I was gonna say, they are getting keyed with bullets

jaybone ,

The key that opens anything.

RagingRobot ,

Maybe they are patenting this just so that no one else can make it! Because they are generous kind hearted people, right? Right?.. Omg :(

bane_killgrind ,

Nope it just takes one jurisdiction to mandate a reporting system is used and then they have a captive market.

Zaktor ,

If they program in an exception to not report other Fords it could become a competitive advantage.

TheEighthDoctor ,

They could make a system that doesn’t allow the vehicle to speed but I guess allowing it and then snitching is better

Zaktor ,

You should probably read articles before commenting. The cars aren’t reporting themselves.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Ford could put all their R&D money into developing low-cost EVs, but they’d prefer to give the cops a handout.

BigDaddySlim ,
@BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world avatar

You won’t buy a Ford because it’ll rat you out to the cops

I won’t buy a Ford because they’re dog shit vehicles

We are not the same

systemglitch ,

With how rarely Toyota’s break down, I hesitate to consider any other car company. Ford is near bottom of the barrel.

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

2002 Echo 248000 still going. Not a truck but still, go Toyota!

captainlezbian ,

Hondas are fine

BigDaddySlim ,
@BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world avatar

Funny enough my girlfriend and I just got Toyota’s, so we should have reliable vehicles for the next 30 years

mjhelto ,

Yup! Wanna change your battery?

“FUCK YOU, GO TO AND PAY A DEALER CAUSE WE BURIED THAT SHIT INSIDE THE FUCKING ENGINE COMPARTMENT!” -Ford

I can’t believe no one has sued them for this anti-consumer bullshit. I don’t know anything about cars, but even I have been able to change the battery in every vehicle I have ever owned.

TrickDacy ,

I rented a Ford focus once and it really was a dog shit vehicle. Every other vehicle could easily interface with my iPod but this piece of shit would need to scan the iPod for 5-10 minutes (making the head unit completely unusable in the meantime) at which point it would start playing some random song from the iPod that it bizarrely determined was first. That was the most obvious shitty design flaw, but literally every thing about the car was piss poor. If I hadn’t been against Ford already because they knowingly killed people with those defective Firestones, I would’ve completely turned against them from that one rental experience. Fuck Ford.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

Great, investors have a target to short sell in the car industry based on Fords bad product development

This idea seems like what someone would come up with if they’re devoid from the reality of driving and have only been chauffeured around lol

Texas_Hangover ,

Yet another reason I will never own a ford vehicle.

tunetardis ,

Interesting. The article suggests the car would photograph others speeding rather than reporting itself.

Personally, I don’t mind speeders so much except when they’re weaving between traffic recklessly. I do really hate tailgaters though. So a rear-facing camera maybe?

PythagreousTitties ,

How about neither

BruceTwarzen ,

I hate speeders, i almost got shot off the road yesterday by a guy going at least 120kmh in an 80kmh zone. But trusting someone like let’s say ford to take care of that… Oh nonono

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

If my car is going to be a snitch, I want a share of that fat ticket money. ;)

Pay me or GTFO.

fubarx ,

GM will be patenting LED windshields showing the middle-finger and blurring the license plate every time a Ford passes by.

lazynooblet ,
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

Edit: I’m wrong, now I diverted rtfa. it’s a camera system to detect other cars. My bad.

I don’t understand your comment. GM own ford, right? And the data they are trying to share comes from the car itself, not other cars around it.

ThatKomputerKat ,
@ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world avatar

No, GM owns Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac.

iAvicenna ,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

when are we gonna have biomedical devices that directly send their test results to health insurance companies? I feel like we are missing this for a perfect Dystopia

bradorsomething ,

Noted: driving 3 mph under the speed limit in front of all fords from now on.

chemicalprophet ,

Fascist nazi fuck company. Class traitor ICE vehicles seem on point though.

Crikeste ,

That face when you allow your factories in Europe to become war machines, but not the ones in your own home.

Allegiances and all that.

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