Ford Patents System to Have Your Car Report Speeders to the Police

Just one more step to the complete surveillance society we read about in the science fiction novels.

[Lantanana]

My old car gets better and better, every single day!!!

[Jezus]

Hahaha sounds like ford dont wanna sell any more vehicles

[donalddarbonne]

As a truck driver, the biggest speeders I see are the Police.

[GrumpyPolecat]

George Orwells' Estate needs to sue Ford for trademark infringement.

[BreakfastCroissants]

Imagine putting this much effort into stopping violent crime.

[shibosuru]

The fact that people are ok with this is astounding

[pocket]

I want to face my accuser. Oh it's my car! You best call the fire department, this traffic stop just turned into a car fire.

[timothyjohnson]

One thing about it, there is going to be a growing industry in disabling all of this surveillance equipment.

[andyny]

Ford needs to patent ways to reduce the dozens of recalls on their crappy cars!😡

[ibnorml]

What needs to change in the United States is that the collection of direct or indirect personal data needs to ALWAYS be an opt-in process, and not require an explicit opt-out action by the person whose data is being collected.

[JDWYO]

Benjamin Franklin said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

[repatch]

I was in Shanghai several years ago. Riding in the bosses car, we got on the freeway and I noticed multiple 'sensor bars' erected across the roadway, the sort of thing you see on electronic toll roads.

I asked the boss what they were? He proudly stated they were cameras, and if he sped, or did some other bad driving thing, the cameras would automatically pick it up, read his license plate, and text him with his picture with a message stating he'd been caught doing something and to pay this fine by clicking a link. It was SO efficient.

It was terrifying. And this is EXACTLY what TPTB what for us. We need to block ANY semblance of this sort of trash from reaching our shores. The moment we start doing what the Chinese government is doing to it's citizens we've ALL lost.

And to those claiming "if you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", history has proven you wrong, DEADLY wrong, many times.

[alfredthibodeaux]

If my car is snitching, I need a paycheck from the city.

[AlarianDarkwind]

I can see the board at ford sitting around saying "what can we do to ensure we lose tons of sales". Someone replies "how about we have cars give speeding tickets to the owner of the car and everyone around them!". President "Perfect!"

[proteinaggie]

I’ve never seen a company put this much effort into convincing me not to buy their product.

[guyforlogos]

5:36 they can’t get a warrant, so all they have to do is send an empty envelope to your home via fedex and then ask FedEx for the video data. That is definitely an end run around the Constitution.

[Awesomejustinj]

I think the manufacturers should also include technologies that gives it's customers live data on the police: location, pullover rates in specific areas, AI legal advice if you do get pulled over, the personnel records of each police department, the ability to file a complaint directly and immediately about abusive cops, all from our cars!!!

[casucasueq]

"He thought of the telescreen with its never sleeping ear"

"Big Brother is watching you."

[stephenbenner]

This reminds me of that scene in the Fifth Element where the taxi driver is speeding and his car tells him he’s speeding and prints out a ticket from the dashboard and eventually just slows down the car for the cops to come get him.

[shadowhawx]

The laws need to force opt in not opt out. Thank you for making these videos and keeping us informed.