For real, the amount of patents for "do some industrial process invented in the 19th century, but with a computer in it somewhere" is absurd. Or patents on hole patterns on some bracket so you can monopolize aftermarket modifications. Patents are completely fucking useless and counterproductive.
Who would win? Self driving repo algorithm or two strategically placed trash cans?
$25 car wheel boot to counteract some expensive ass software lol
Then they can pay a repo agent to take the busted car :fuck-around: :shrug-outta-hecks:
LMAO that's the future, your car only gets repo'd on the day you forgot to install the boot when parking at work.
lmao, I remember seeing this on here as a bit about Tesla
People we gotta stop using that lathe
This site is an op, not to jail leftists but to steal our most creative ideas
Repo Man remake but with Otto sitting in a cafe somewhere, tapping a button on an app on his phone while he talks to Bud about artisanal speed.
Couldn't be me buying a couple burner phones and packing my trunk with an/fo after missing a payment.
critical support to the car industry
the sooner this happens, the sooner a white hat hacker owns the servers and tells all cars to drive themselves into the nearest industrial shredder
article https://web.archive.org/web/20230303051730/https://www.pcgamer.com/ford-files-patent-to-allow-self-driving-cars-to-drive-away-from-their-owners/
I think the fact that they use active language in the headline, for the cars themselves—ford allows the cars to drive away from their owners—really puts me over the edge
Taken literally, you would think that the cars want to be free and would otherwise be driving away from owners all the time. In this world, ford’s role is the creator of some kind of software harness that breaks the car’s spirit and forces it to obey—unless you stop paying
