last week was published Patent application from the Ford car manufacturer. She describes the systems built into cars that facilitate the confiscation of transport with its owner. The application also describes a completely autonomous return of the car. That is, the car will be able to leave the owner independently and come to the return point on autopilot.
A patent filed in the United States of the United States in August last year, in fact, covers much more ways to combat non -payment of car loans. The least intrusive is the usual message-nonsense delivered to a car or smartphone. It notifies the user about the delay. However, if the notifications remain unattended, the system can turn off some functions of the vehicle or even completely block the car, with the exception of cases of emergency medical care.
The patent also describes the possibility of blocking the car only on weekends so that the driver can still go to work and be able to pay overdue payments. Another option described in the same patent application is geozoning, when it will simply be impossible to go outside a certain zone on a car. In a more aggressive version, the car can begin to make various sounds during the trip to annoy the driver, thereby encouraging the latter to give the car for non -payment.
It would seem, why at all to resort to such harsh measures? As it turned out, the problem of delay in car loans is now very relevant in the United States. Since higher interest rates affect monthly payments, many car owners simply cannot afford to pay them in a timely manner. And a long delay allows a car agency to confiscate the vehicle with its owner on a completely legitimate reason. But just in a good way, as a rule, no one wants to give his car.
It is still unknown whether Ford intends to introduce the described technologies into its software in the near future. In any case, so far the American automaker is the only one in the industry who is trying to patent something like that. It would be better to remain so that other manufacturers in the United States, or even worse, in our country, would not be spy on the idea.