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The Guy With The Goats
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police
Well... who would have guessed that a company that championed ridiculously fast cars and sells 500+HP monstrosities would pull this dystopian bullshit?
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Good way to never sell another vehicle again.
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I wonder if Ford is playing 4D chess here. If you have a patent on such technology, nobody else (in theory) would be able to develop a similar system without licensing it from you. Ford already sells a ton of vehicles to police departments, which would likely be the real customer of such a system. I doubt they were thinking of equipping consumer vehicles with this.
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Now that we have the technology I really see no reason for any vehicle to be able to go over 85 mph
It would save hundreds of thousands of lives per year It would be suicide for Ford though. People would just stop buying their cars/trucks. Last edited by BWillie; 08-01-2024 at 11:41 PM.. |
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Why is access to that technology your lynchpin for vehicles being limited to 85?
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I tracked down the patent and it looks like it does apply to 'law enforcement`, 'emergency vehicles' and 'autonomous vehicles' which are referenced in the examples. The patent does seem broad enough to cover consumer vehicles as well, but that isn't illustrated or referenced specifically.
https://www.patentguru.com/US20240239352A1 The mention of autonomous vehicles is interesting. I could see a scenario where an agency would purchase several autonomous vehicles with this system and set them loose on a highway. in that case these would essentially be mobile speed traps. |
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Let's just go full reerun with it, for safety sake! |
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That's amazing, that they would even bother to print that. I mean, I think the national speed limit was 55, so they were recommending 10 MPH under the ****ing speed limit. Anyway, great car. Got it up to 100 MPH on a road trip once, just to see if I could do it. That shit got scary as hell at about 80, but I was young and stupid. Lived to tell the tale though. |
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Would an idiot do that?
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