• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
    231·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • 50MYT@aussie.zone
        10·
        4 months ago

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

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 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

  • pubquiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    195·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    151·
    4 months ago

    Have you consumed your daily amount of ad-prescribed surveillance pills, citizen?

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      91·
      4 months ago

      I’ll stick to Toyota for now.

      I wish I’d found Toyota products decades earlier. Nearly lifelong Ford guy here, and honestly no major complaints with the vehicles I’ve had. But we are now a Toyota family, and everyone I know who owns one (now including us) won’t even look at another company. Really reliable, well designed cars, IMO. I think you’re doing the right thing.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      It is every car manufacturer everywhere. To make things worse, the car manufacturers sell your data to insurance companies

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    164·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • Cyteseer@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        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

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    101·
    4 months ago

    So happy I sold off my car 8 years ago & haven’t had one since. I can hardly believe how bad things have gotten.

  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    4 months ago

    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?

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    2418·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 months ago

      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

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    116·
    4 months ago

    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.