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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.

HocEnimVeni ,
@HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world avatar

Ah classic boot licking just like ol’ henry ford

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

What do you mean by tha-

Only a single great man, Ford, to their fury still maintains full independence [from the control of Jewish masters]. -(Mein Kampf)

Oh. Well, shit.

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

Sterile_Technique ,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Sooo how long before we find a way to jailbreak the thing and essentially have an on-board “give that car a ticket” button to report false speed data on any driver we happen to be pissed off at?

…yeah I’d 100% abuse the fuck out of that.

deweydecibel ,

Not just a law enforcement thing, either.

Ford will absolutely, 100%, start selling this data to insurance companies, who will absolutely use it to increase rates.

Chestrade ,

Why not just have a speed cap on cars?

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

And have it auto adjust based on the roads limit. We have gps and data for every road. Driving is a privilege not a right, nobody has the right to speed faster than the posted limit.

Vent ,

I’ll stop speeding when the mfs around here stop building 6 lane roads with a 30mph speed limit.

vaultdweller013 ,

Ill stop speading when I stop having freebird play randomly.

Jeeve65 ,

No speed cap yet, but all new cars sold in the EU must have a signal that alerts the driver if they’re driving faster than the current speed limit.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a61532276/mandatory-speed-limiters-europe-cars/

chonglibloodsport ,

Because it’s dangerous. Sometimes you have to exceed the speed limit to avoid a collision.

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.

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.

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Cue the “I wasn’t driving, that was someone else!” Defense.

venusaur ,
@venusaur@lemmy.world avatar

Should be Dodge

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.

Snapz ,

And then selling a subscription to turn it off

Mihies ,

Ha, you would think so, but from article it seems it’d sneetch only on other vehicles. Now, a subscription for reporting a certain ‘enemy’ vehicle could be way to go.

lauha ,

“Sir, your Ford sent half an hour long video of this truck going 85 mph on 65 mph road. I would think you understand why you also got a ticket?”

hperrin ,

The all new Ford Narc 2024, with optional stitches.

UsernameIsTooLon ,

Good. F150 drivers need to get off my ass when I’m already 10 over on local roads. I ain’t ever buying a Ford so fuck em.

WarlordSdocy ,

This only reports other drivers around the Ford speeding so what would happen is they would still do that and you would get in trouble for going 10 over.

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