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[Gene Steinberg]

Ford is working on a technology that would allow a car to repossess itself.

Yes, I'm serious:

To avoid 'confrontation,' Ford applies for patent on self-repossessing vehicle technology

Ford cars could repossess themselves when delinquent owners ignore car payment warnings, if the company's pending patent is approved.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Richard Hawkins]

Ford is working on a technology that would allow a car to repossess itself.

Yes, I'm serious:

To avoid 'confrontation,' Ford applies for patent on self-repossessing vehicle technology

Ford cars could repossess themselves when delinquent owners ignore car payment warnings, if the company's pending patent is approved.

www.usatoday.com

That's great news more money for public transport. All those people who drive and can't afford it can get the bus.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Assuming you live close enough to a bus that'll take you where you want or need to go.

 

[henris42]

Yes, noticed that one with some laughs!

I wonder if it then comes back if you lure it with some money?

 

[Gene Steinberg]

And if the car somehow hits someone when this driverless technology is working, can the injured party sue the person who didn't pay their bills?

 

[henris42]

If its working, it should not matter if you are sitting in the car or not... The famous "someone else" has to be responsible.
Yep, that is something that insurance companies have to sort out...

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Not to mention the existing problems with so-called driverless cars.

 

[henris42]

Indeed, that tech is not even close to this level-5. Scary shit, don't trust Elon. IMHO it takes another 20 years.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

They better hurry. Remember that warp drive is going to be invented in 40 years.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

Speaking of warp drive:

NASA Is Close To Developing A Warp Drive?

NASA has announced they are currently working on what might actually be a working warp drive, but it might take some time.

www.giantfreakinrobot.com

 

[henris42]

And we have to have the WW3..

But making rockets and planes driverless is easy compared to cars. Apparently Metro trains vary - I just visited one fully driverless in Denmark, but here they dropped the whole project now the second time.

 

[henris42]

I can see the Eastern Alliance attacking soon though.

 

[Richard Hawkins]

They better hurry. Remember that warp drive is going to be invented in 40 years.

Agh well that is why world wide I would put an extra 50% on the price of cars which would be re invested back into a public transport system that everyone could use.

 

[henris42]

Public transport, especially Metro, makes people live like sardines.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY, where public transportation is the best way to travel, bus or train. I've driven around the city, and it's not user friendly for cars.

 

[henris42]

Here driving around the Helsinki city used to be OK, but it has been politically made hell. Taking away lanes, ridiculous speed limits etc.
Metro works, but I can see its effect on architecture. Ugly, stuffed new neighborhoods near stations where you can see neighbours living room from your window. Its not like that where I live.

Bloody greens.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

It wasn't as bad as it is now when I was a kid Ufologist in New York City.

 

[Richard Hawkins]

Public transport, especially Metro, makes people live like sardines.

I look sardines they are very tasty.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

My father used to buy canned sardines.

I hated the odor.

 

[Richard Hawkins]

Speaking of warp drive:

NASA Is Close To Developing A Warp Drive?

NASA has announced they are currently working on what might actually be a working warp drive, but it might take some time.

www.giantfreakinrobot.com

To go where no man has gone before.