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Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police (www.local12.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This has got to be a case of a preventative patent and not something that'll actually see production. Like, there's just no way the people at Ford are dumb enough to look at this and unironically think it's a good idea. They'd probably lose a quarter of their customer base if they start rolling it out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My guess would be they’re just playing it smart, waiting for the dystopian required implementation of the systems in all cars in the future.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Watch governments implement this requirement, then ford makes $$$ selling the rights to everyone else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Imagine how handy this would be in generating reasons to pull people over, if a certain fascist regains power

[–] SirSamuel 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah there's no point in spending the money on R&D and manufacturing just togive info to an outside party. This is either preventative like you say, or they plan to offer a subscription service to local PD's at a price