The following report is by ZeroHedge:
Ford Motor Company filed a US patent application that shows autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles could potentially repossess themselves if their owners miss lease or loan payments.
The idea of self-driving cars repossessing themselves might sound dystopian, but it is not surprising that automakers are considering this technology to ensure payment. Repossession is a common practice, and as we’ve described recently, cracks are beginning to form in the subprime auto loan market (read: here & here).
While this patent application was first filed in Aug. 2021 and formally published on Feb. 23, it could be years before Ford implements such a technology.
The patent, titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle,” explains how a future lineup of Ford vehicles would be capable of “[disabling] a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle.”
If a driver misses a car payment, the vehicle will disable air conditioning, radio, GPS, and cruise control to irritate the driver.
If the owner misses more payments, the repossession cycle will worsen. The car would emit an “incessant and unpleasant sound.” Worse, the vehicle might lock out the driver on certain days until payments are made.
And still, if the lockout doesn’t work and payments are missed, the vehicle could drive to a safe, nearby location for a repo team to seize it and avoid confrontation with the owner.
It is worth noting that filing a patent application does not necessarily mean the technology will be implemented, but the takeaway is a glimpse of the dystopic future.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is Ford’s way of saying, “You’ll own nothing and be happy!”
Ford would only do this if a social credit score and CBDC is coming. Everything is going to be tied down to that system, which is what the globalists want it, so everything can be perfectly controlled. As the patent clearly shows, the car will start to deactivate itself and render itself useless the longer drivers skip their lease payments. There is no such thing as owning this type of car, only renting and leasing.
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Ford is also going all electric anyways, as are the other major dealers, slowly phasing out gas, diesel, and hybrids.
As noted in this ZeroHedge article, the auto market is on the precipice of total meltdown. “The Everything Bubble” is getting extremely close to popping. The Great Recession saw the collapse of the subprime mortgages: now we have a subprime auto market on the verge of popping; on top of another larger housing collapse, a commercial real estate and office occupancy collapse the likes of which has not been seen, increasing bankruptcies and defaults, inflation not stopping, and more. It’s going to get VERY bad, and that’s putting it moderately.
[26] Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. [27] If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Proverbs 22:26-27
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Why am I not surprised that it is the Ford Motor Co. that is developing this patent. If people are stupid enough to buy Ford products like they were in the 70s with the Pinto as one example, they’ll get what they deserve. Their dubious history is enough to stay away from that brand. They have perfected the art of deactivating cars, even when people could afford to pay cash for them, and their founder even had enough time to put out an antiJew publication in 1930s Dearborn, MI. One of Hitler’s heroes, as was Roman Catholic Margaret Sanger.
Now we are seeing young people writing a personal will more than ever: https://www.silive.com/news/2023/03/more-young-adults-are-creating-wills-because-of-covid-19-inflation-survey-says.html