Autonomous Vehicle News
If you miss the payments on your Ford F-150, Ford may soon be able to deactivate your ride with the click of a button. The automaker applied for a patent on Feb. 23 related to technology that would enable them to remotely disable various features of their vehicles, The Drive reported last week. The first computer may be associated with a financing agency (a bank or a lender) and the second computer may be a vehicle computer of the vehicle or a smartphone owned by the individual. The patent application doesn’t specify whether government agencies would be allowed backdoors into these systems, but it’s only a matter of time. Here’s the patent application, welcome to the brave new world.