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Originally Posted by snizzle
Not EV specific necessarily but your automaker will be able to let outside entities (finance agencies, gov, etc) activate autonomous features to deactivate or drive your car away when they see fit.
https://www.motor1.com/news/654915/f...ks-out-owners/
New tech coming to a car soon near you ��
I guess this stuff is no longer a conspiracy theory. |
The repossession justification provides a convenient gateway to get this Trojan horse into all vehicles at some point.
The technology and endless other "uses" are beyond Orwellian.
Certainly any type of freedom to travel can be removed at any time for a variety of reasons over which the so-called "owner" would have no control.
Private ownership and automotive freedom is doomed..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...fa1b2232&ei=56
The patent application outlines a series of strategies to resolve nonpayment. Those include:
Sending reminder messages and a warning from banks or lending institutions to the owner's smartphone or vehicle display screen.
After days or weeks, the strategy could evolve to include audio that makes an "unpleasant" sound to get the owner to contact the lender about arranging payment.
Then the car may disable features such as window or seat controls, GPS or radio dials to "cause discomfort," the patent said.
"The first thing to know is that if your vehicle is connected to the internet in any way, this system could theoretically work on it. The application likewise describes a 'repossession computer' that could be installed on future cars to make this system function smoothly, but it also states no extra hardware necessarily needs to be installed on the vehicle for it to function," said thedrive.com, which first reported the news Monday. "Basically, if your car has an infotainment system already set up to receive something like over-the-air updates, this could probably work without physical modifications."