Blues Man
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Sure.........they did.
They just want the $$$ YOU owed, or they take your stuff back.
Miss a car payment or a house payment........the same for anything financed.
Some even contemplated, leaving people with no transport, with no messy repos.
March 3 2023
Ford has some interesting ideas on what self-driving cars might soon be able to do. Besides freeing us from the tedium of commuting, the company envisions cars that could repossess themselves.
According to a document recently published on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, Ford said it is considering a system that would allow a car to, on its own, leave you if you stop making your monthly auto payments.
Ford's 14-page application, filled with ideas for getting people to pay up, may be more patentable than others.
Before getting to the point where the car would simply drive itself away, delinquent payers would be subject to a litany of annoyances. First, badgering messages on owners' smartphones and even on the screens inside the car. These messages would demand at least an acknowledgment or, better yet, on-the-spot payment.
If the owner persists in ignoring these messages, the vehicle would, in the words of Ford's patent application, "initiate execution of a multi-step repossession procedure."
So I was forced to buy something under the threat of violence?
I never got a letter from Amazon saying that if I didn't buy something I would be thrown in jail.