You approach your car, groggy, awkwardly shifting your coffee and phone to one hand so you can fumble through your purse for your keys. But before you find them, the car starts. It backs itself out of the driveway, turns around, and drives away empty.This minor dystopian vision is brought to you by... You approach your car, groggy, awkwardly shifting your coffee and phone to one hand so you can fumble through your purse for your keys. But before you find them, the car starts.
Read: Buying a car from the factory sounds expensive, but it can actually save you money. Here’s how to do it. In the longer term, as self-driving cars become feasible, Ford says, cars could simply drive themselves away from owners who don’t pay. If it finds its market value below a “pre-determined threshold price,” the car could commit suicide. That is, Ford says, it could “autonomously move the vehicle from the premises of the owner to a junkyard.”Dystopian, but probably rare Here, we should point out that lenders aren’t anxious to repossess cars.
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