Ah yes I'd sure like to own a snitchmobile.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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Bold of you to assume you'll have a choice.
When the day comes that I'm forced to buy a car I'll be flummoxed.
Are armed mechanics going to show up and install a monitor on my 2001 shitbox?
Nah they'll just say it's part of the "rules of the road" and won't let you drive it anymore. The downside of accepting roads being controlled by governments.
That thing won't run forever.
I'll dead before the last 2000's econo car dies.
No but if will run for a very long time. Especially if there is a decent number of them on the road. (More parts)
I'll build my own car.
Well it might be snitching on me every second of every day, but at least its not a chevy...
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.
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.
Watch governments implement this requirement, then ford makes $$$ selling the rights to everyone else
Imagine how handy this would be in generating reasons to pull people over, if a certain fascist regains power
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
Now I want an onboard system that hides my tag until it sees a pig bike/car/van, warns ME (the schlep who pays for it) and reveals the tag. Why is tech serving the pigs and not the owners who drive the vehicles as they were designed? Oh, that's right, the cozy relationship between corporations and leo gangs. FML
And if you think I drive aggressively now, buy one of these stitchmobiles and see how often you're cut off, brake checked, and given a hassle. Spoiler alert: it'll be a lot more. A LOT.
Im sure theyll sell a subscription to let you report bad drivers & buy indulgences a la carte for yourself
Have you consumed your daily amount of ad-prescribed surveillance pills, citizen?
Why not just install speed limiting software in the cars? You could literally make the cars incapable of getting a speeding ticket in a way that doesn't violate user privacy. Ford won't because they love selling murder machines and they know that with the culture around cars in the US nobody would buy them.
Speed-limits aren't uniform, so you'd have to have some kind of GPS connectivity as well as an up-to-date database that tracks what the current speed-limit is and where the user is (good bye privacy). Also better make sure the software doesn't think you are on the 30mph access road that is beside the 70mph highway.
It would be a terrible idea, but maybe not worse then what the article is describing.
Some Ford cars already have camera systems that can recognize speed limit signs and limit cruise control speeds. They could just use that instead of developing something that fines and jails people
So happy I sold off my car 8 years ago & haven’t had one since. I can hardly believe how bad things have gotten.
How are you commuting?
A little thing called ✨public transit ✨
Sometimes. Or sometimes I walk. I also have a small 155cc motorbike for other tasks.
Very nice! What model bike, if you don't mind me asking?
Yamaha NVX 155cc
Thanks!
Just checking. Figured you would say bicycle
why would you allow speeding in the first place, just to report it to cops after?!?
Or maybe I should have read it and it is reporting other drivers?
Clearly it should just be controlled by the police
Please. Please god. This would be the actual funniest shit. I had a man wave a damn gun at me for doing the speed limit in the left lane... on a residential road. I am so sick of these entitled assholes. Ford, please, its the only thing I want for christmas, please please make their douchey trucks fink on them. I've been so good this year.
I mean, if you're not passing in the left lane…
I kid, i kid, I've been on those residential two lane roads. The number of people that think highway guidelines apply on a residential road are mind-blowing. Like, I'm in this lane because I'm turning left in a mile and trying to merge a full-size work van with medium traffic congestion is a challenge already. I'm sorry I kept you from driving your Mazda like a Maserati
left lane… on a residential road
Hmm, perhaps this is the issue with our car-centric society and it won't actually be solved with big-brother surveillence.
Yeah, why were you in the left lane? Slower vehicles keep to the right, jackass
I was going to turn left.
Lol nice
Usually I'm against this kinda stuff, but this would be hilarious. I've almost been run off the road by tiny dicked dudes in lifted F-250's rolling coal. I say fuck 'em.
Na, do it
I had enough reasons to not buy a Ford before this.