{"id":159608,"date":"2023-03-05T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ford-wants-to-be-able-to-shut-down-your-air-conditioner-and-radio-if-you-miss-a-car-payment-and-the-car-could-even-drive-away-on-its-own"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T21:23:33","slug":"ford-wants-to-be-able-to-shut-down-your-air-conditioner-and-radio-if-you-miss-a-car-payment-and-the-car-could-even-drive-away-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ford-wants-to-be-able-to-shut-down-your-air-conditioner-and-radio-if-you-miss-a-car-payment-and-the-car-could-even-drive-away-on-its-own","title":{"rendered":"Ford wants to be able to shut down your air conditioner and radio if you miss a car payment\u2014and the car could even drive away on its own"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ford Motor<\/a> Co. has filed for a patent on technology that could remotely shut down your radio or air conditioning, lock you out of your vehicle, or prompt it to ceaselessly beep if you miss car payments. Ford said it has no plans to use the technology, contained in just one of the many patents filed by the auto-making giant.<\/p>\n

Still, it emerges at a troubling time<\/a> for car owners. Loan delinquencies have been steadily ticking back up from their pandemic lull. Cox Automotive data showed severely delinquent auto loans in January hitting their highest point since 2006. The use of technology to aid repossessions isn\u2019t new, but the patent application is wide-ranging, even proposing the idea that an autonomous vehicle could drive itself to a \u201cmore convenient\u201d location to be collected by a tow truck.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really seems like you\u2019re opening up a can of worms that, as a manufacturer, you don\u2019t really need to be doing,\u201d said John Van Alst, a senior attorney with the National Consumer Law Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford Motor Co. has filed for a patent on technology that could remotely shut down your radio or air conditioning, lock you out of your vehicle, or prompt it to ceaselessly beep if you miss car payments. Ford said it has no plans to use the technology, contained in just one of the many patents [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}