• Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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    194 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      164 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

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

    • @SirSamuel
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      24 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