Anicet Mbida 06:52, March 07, 2023
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This Tuesday, he is interested in cars that return to the dealer on their own if you don't pay their bills.
The innovation of the day is the future lethal weapon of financial organizations: cars that return to the dealer on their own if you don't pay your bills.
Cars that punish bad payers!
Do you know that today more and more cars are being leased?
Imagine that one day you are late with a payment.
After two, three alerts, you will be deactivated the GPS.
You miss a draft?
More heating.
A second ?
Speed limited to 50 km/h.
And from the third, if you still haven't understood, the car will leave by itself to the pound or to the dealership, until your financial situation improves.
It's not science fiction.
It's a mechanic that Ford is considering for its next cars.
Rather than sending you bailiffs or making seizures, the car's electronics will take care of everything.
Now you understand why they are investing so much in connected cars and self-driving cars.
This is to be able to automatically take them back from bad payers.
Do we already know on which models it is planned?
No not yet.
At the moment it is just a patent.
But these are functions that we are beginning to see on certain cars: at BMW and Toyota, for example, heated seats or remote start are charged by subscription.
If you no longer pay, the function will be automatically deactivated.
Of course, this can have perverse effects.
I think of this story a few days ago in the United States.
Volkswagen had started by refusing to send the police the GPS coordinates of a vehicle where a kidnapped child could be found… on the pretext that the option had not been paid for.
The risk is still the bug.
That a function is deactivated at the wrong time...
Yes !
Or worse: we go quietly to work and the car decides on its own to take you to the pound.
Let us be reassured.
Before that happens, we must first have truly autonomous cars that work!
Because despite all the hype for more than 10 years, we are still not about to see them on our roads.
On the other hand, functions that are deactivated or activated remotely, it will be difficult to cut them.