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How smart is AI today? It allows refrigerators to talk, floor-sweeping robots to watch the road, and cars to move on their own.

However, how to use artificial intelligence depends on the creativity of the company. Ford, on the other hand, recently found another way to get AI to solve the bank's car loan problem:

Don't pay off the car loan, do you? Your car will drive itself to the dump.

Car: leave handsome! | in a patent officially announced by Giphy on February 23 this year, Ford designed a "vehicle recycling system", which is mainly aimed at future smart cars, which often rely on computers to achieve most of their functions. And when this software is installed in the car, the car can be connected to the Internet, it will become a car administrator, automatically control the function of the car.

For example, let the car turn on the lights, play music, navigate, turn on the air conditioner, and even more crucially, such as starting the car, braking, controlling speed and so on. It's terrifying to think about it! However, the main purpose of Ford is to persuade car owners to repay their car loans as soon as possible. According to the patent description, the software will be coupled to the vehicle itself in cooperation with car lending institutions (banks or other financial institutions, etc.).

AI is taking over your car now. | the Giphy system will not only remind you to repay the loan quickly, but when you are in arrears for several months, the system will start the formal recovery process and start thinking of various ways to make things difficult for those who fail to repay their car loans.

First of all, it will issue multiple warnings, and if you ignore these warnings, the car will turn off some small functions. For example, you can't use the GPS navigation, you can't turn on the music, you can't adjust the seat height, and so on.

If you can stand it, in a few days, the car's air-conditioning system, remote keys and automatic door lock system will also be disabled. Even when you are in the car, the car may make a persistent and unpleasant sound.

Car: it's up to you. | Giphy people who are more determined have come to the third level: they can't open the door at all. But Ford is also humane, with the document saying: "lock you out of the car only on weekends." after all, you have to drive to work on weekdays to make money. "vehicles can also be used in emergencies," such as when you are in a hurry to see a doctor, the car will restore some functions to help people.

AI: go to work and make money in a car where you can't get a car loan. | Giphy if you hand in the loan in time, the function of the car will be restored soon. And if you don't hand it in, the system will start the ultimate trick: let your car drive away. It will work with loan financial institutions to drive the car into a driveway that is convenient for trailers to tow away, and if the car is not valuable, it will drive itself to the junkyard.

Smart cars will find their new home here. | as soon as the patent of Pixabay, a "vehicle recycling system" was issued, it aroused a lot of discussion on the Internet. Some people commented that this car will not automatically open the shutter door of the garage, right? (it is written in the patent document that it will not. ). Others say that Ford had better let the bad car learn to drive to the repair shop first. However, some people think that this will save them the money to find a trailer and tow it to the dump.

However, many people are also beginning to worry that when AI starts to take over your car, there will be a lot of trouble, even things beyond our control. In 2017, Waymo of self-driving taxis argued that extra attention should be paid to connecting self-driving cars to the Internet and keeping them offline when not necessary to prevent security problems caused by hackers.

It's too dangerous for hackers to control the car. | Security experts have shown since Pixabay2015 that they can use technical means to hack into a car's computer system, not only to control speakers and wipers, but even to disable brakes. For this reason, more and more people begin to pay attention to the research related to the anti-hacker intrusion of intelligent vehicles, and DEFCON, the largest computer security conference in the world, has regarded it as a field that needs special discussion.

At the meeting, everyone agreed that the car computer system should not be fully open, just like "you can't put eggs in one basket." In short, the car factory really should do something practical to ensure the safety of smart cars!

The first thing AI drivers have to learn is safety | Giphy, but then again, although Ford issued the patent, they claimed that the idea of not putting it in a real vehicle was probably just a proposal. But this is also the only patent applied for this kind of product, it shows us that the car can really run on its own!

Who knows what other companies will do with artificial intelligence?

references

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/future-fords-could-repossess-themselves-and-drive-away-if-you-miss-payments

[2] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230055958

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/01/10/154642/why-some-autonomous-cars-are-going-to-avoid-the-internet/

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/7-arguments-against-the-autonomous-vehicle-utopia/578638/

[5] https://www.reuters.com/technology/truly-autonomous-cars-may-be-impossible-without-helpful-human-touch-2022-09-12/

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