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Arancio601
·The doomsdayer in me wonders if an EMP takes out my city if it will have me driving my ‘66 Alfa while wearing my manual watch! Wouldn’t want to be in a self-driving car at the time…
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Will your car potentially repossess itself?
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFThe doomsdayer in me wonders if an EMP takes out my city if it will have me driving my ‘66 Alfa while wearing my manual watch! Wouldn’t want to be in a self-driving car at the time…
So it’d be you in your ‘66 Alfa, and a swarm of looters in AU Falcons doing fat skids while stealing televisions.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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JimInOz
··Melbourne Australia................... Ipswich and Logan would survive.
So it’d be you in your ‘66 Alfa, and a swarm of looters in AU Falcons doing fat skids while stealing televisions.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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Arancio601
·Our city is too big and too low density to be worthwhile nuking which is a positive. On the downside, if it did get nuked, even by China’s current top of the line weapons, Ipswich and Logan would survive.
So it’d be you in your ‘66 Alfa, and a swarm of looters in AU Falcons doing fat skids while stealing televisions.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Ha! Fair point Ash. I live a few hundred metres from Enoggera base so I’d be ash too anyway.
I didn’t know nukemap is a thing…
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Pastorbottle
·The doomsdayer in me wonders if an EMP takes out my city if it will have me driving my ‘66 Alfa while wearing my manual watch! Wouldn’t want to be in a self-driving car at the time…
I had a 66 Giulia Super, a 74 GTV 2000, a Sud Sprint and 3 Alfa 90 V6s.
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Arancio601
·I figured you are an Alfa Romeo guy, going by your Alfa Montreal headlight cover avatar.
I had a 66 Giulia Super, a 74 GTV 2000, a Sud Sprint and 3 Alfa 90 V6s.
Don’t want to thread drift too much but yes, have a nice 66 Super and project 67 GT Veloce and 72 Montreal.
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JwRosenthal
·I figured you are an Alfa Romeo guy, going by your Alfa Montreal headlight cover avatar.
I had a 66 Giulia Super, a 74 GTV 2000, a Sud Sprint and 3 Alfa 90 V6s.
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Evitzee
·if the banks did a better job vetting the heroes (ones who pay their car bill) from the zeros there would be a lot less repossession going on. oh, i have an idea: the car repossessor takes one of your children and gives him/her back when the car is paid for.....bet that would happen in a pinch!
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Taddyangle
·I worked for a GPS tracking company between 2007-2013. We manufactured a GPS device (sold tens of thousands a month) that would be installed by the bank with those that had less than stellar credit. If you were late on a car payment, a buzzing sound would occur, if you became really late, then they had the ability to disable the vehicle so it would not start. Also, the tracking would be stored so that they could develop a travel pattern, so they could estimate where one might be, so if it was removed by the driver, they could guesstimate where that car might be located. In addition, they could also determine hard braking (or crash). This was all available technology 15+ years ago.
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Canuck
·It seems the secret is to replace your gas filler cap with a locking one, and put in 2 gallons of gas every day!
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentWell if that last paragraph is true, expect >95% of all repossessed Fords to drive straight to the scrapyard 😁
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerWell if that last paragraph is true, expect >95% of all repossessed Fords to drive straight to the scrapyard 😁
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eldiano84
·Question is, would the car manufacturer or the service provider do this on behalf of the creditor? I mean it's not GM that is shutting down the car during a theft or remotely unlocking it for GM (or creditor). It's for the operator and on behalf of GM who has contracted the service to a third-party.
. Long story short, the lender was actually a bank of the brand and after two months, the brand worked with a local repo company to legit wait for me to get home from work and tow it in seconds after I got home. By the time I realized it was gone, It was too late. I got my car back the same day but I had to pay upfront like 3 months of the car payment and the repo fees.
Car Brands can make this easier by shutting down the engine and ensure it can’t go nowhere for sure especially since now the same car brand can see where your car is at and remote start it or shut it down from anywhere in the city with their built in app, because it’s a feature I use all the time but I know they also feature a theft mode…
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