Ask yourself: who is this for?
In other words, automakers and their dealers have spent years ramping up car prices or taking advantage of market conditions. Now they’re coming up with high-tech ways to hit owners back if they can’t pay up.
Naturally, this isn’t the kind of technology-related headline Ford wants. The automaker demurred in a statement published in various outlets, saying it has no plan to deploy this system. “We submit patents on new inventions as a normal course of business, but they aren’t necessarily an indication of new business or product plans,” Ford said in a statement.
Even if you take Ford at face value there, this kind of thing absolutely can be done. In a world where automakers are actively fighting your ability to fix your own car, there’s no reason to believe they have consumers’ best interests in mind all of the time. And while connected car technology is still in its relative infancy, it is only a matter of time before those cars enter the used market or the tech spreads to cheaper vehicles.
So when we look at how car technology is advancing in the years to come, it’s worth drivers everywhere asking this: Who is all of this for, anyway? And is this next generation of cars going to save the planet and its people, or is it just going to save the auto industry?
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