 Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please covering both sides of the big issues with the analysis you trust on use radio 1040 WHO so now we thought we'd talk about vehicles that can repossess themselves No, no really joining us to talk about that is a regular Guest on our show. He is the patent professor. His name is John Rizvi. Welcome back John. How are you? Yeah, terrific always great to be here always good to have you so apparently Ford is planning to build vehicles That can repossess themselves which will upset a lot of towing companies. I'm sure Yes, so they have a patent application that shows a Vehicle that does exactly what you say it repossesses itself But it's funny that the repossession is like the last resort But I just can't get over all their minor steps that they take before they repossess And I don't know if you have if you have time tonight. I can never we did over a couple of them there Yeah, you know, so if you don't pay your bills Your car payment one of their options is to turn off your air conditioning. Oh, okay before it gets repossessed It has a computer the patents on a computer that will turn off your air conditioning. That's hysterical Oh My god Roast you till you you pay your your make your car payment The other one's not as absurd. It's locking you out of the car The car the computer can lock you out This one is is I think crazy it will emit and I'm reading directly from the patent emit an incessant Unpleasant sound from the car radio until you call your bank You can't turn it off you're behind on your payment Yeah, now you have no option but to drive around with it and they don't you know They don't explain what the sound is a good patent attorney keeps things broad so it could be anything That's annoying right This is really fascinating isn't it? I mean I only partially tongue-in-cheek where I say That towing company is going to be very upset because if they if it gets to the point where Ford says sends a signal and says come home or whatever Right, and the vehicle starts itself up and and heads out to go back from once it came That's gonna be a sight to see doesn't isn't it? it will but it Like you know sometimes I had a professor in law school once I said you can't make up that all his exams come from real life Because the stuff in real life is so crazy like he can't even make it up if the if this vehicle has been called Back there's no payments So come home and it's on its way and the owner interferes and I did that the patent doesn't go into what interference would be like The vehicle automatically calls the police So here you get the police called by a robot and The police is going to help I guess an electronic vehicle From the owner interfering in the repossession the vehicle trying to repossess itself the owner gets in the way the vehicle called the police None of these people have ever seen a Terminator movie is all I have to say about this all right, John I we have the smartest audience in talk radio and Somebody has just texted me on our American Toppin accessories text line five on five nine eight nine ten forty And he or she says if I buy the vehicle outright is that programming deleted? Oh Good good question the patent doesn't talk about that, but um that is a really good question and isn't it? Yeah, well first of all it should never be repossessed, but here's the thing I would want to wait But you just said never come on You know programming can go wrong Well, right like none of us have ever seen a computer malfunction right like the worry even if it's paid in full I Completely agree with that listener. That's a smart listen I would want this program off the car completely because I wanted malfunctioning turning off the air-conditioning Who don't what else like Exactly exactly Someone is says this is like the Canadian truckers or if the government does not like your politics they can shut your vehicle off So I can someone does put on a brand new tinfoil hat for that one Conspiracy theory yes once the technology is out there you see everyone just assumes the government's got access to it And here's the the beauty I think of the patent system is when a patent is published it's open for anybody to see So this they can't keep this confidential once the patent is published But before you know, they I think it's a PR nightmare for them So they've come forward they said they have no current plans to deploy this And that they submit patents all the time on inventions as a normal course of business But they're not necessarily an indication of products that are coming so I think that's just a standard disclaimer that has to be made but But it's still causing quite an uproar because these are these are you know, especially from Liability and an injury standpoint like these I just imagine some of the malfunction Some of the things they talk about is even being able to control the brakes the accelerator the lights the cruise control Windows I mean can you like imagine a window malfunctioning and you're at Starbucks trying to try to get your your latte and all of a sudden some signal gets crossed and Instead of the car behind you somehow Your vehicle gets the signal to close the window and there you are with your hand out the window trying to get your your cappuccino Whatever and then yikes like this. This is it Definitely seems To be a risky Thing to actually implement Ah Well, it's it's certainly very very interesting. I do keep telling you we have the smartest audience and talk radio They say good country songs include a guy's wife leaving them now their trucks can too Yes, I think we could be in for the truck leaving your leaving you John you are the patent professor. Tell us what that means Yes, so that's that I protect new ideas so patents trademarks that protect brands and Any of your listeners can find us on You know Instagram tick tock Facebook under the patent professor the website the patent professor as well I love protecting new ideas. Hopefully if you have smart Listeners, I don't want anything else that that that repossesses itself. I don't we don't want repossessing You know cars that we possess themselves homes that eject Oh, you know Trap door opens up and all of a sudden the family gets sucked out into the basement Exactly because you're behind behind on your rent like nothing like that yet if they have good ideas that That actually I think are good for society in general then I'd love to protect them okay, and Remember Ford say they're not no plans to deploy this but keep an eye on it just in case they do and as Our texture said if you buy your vehicle outright You would need to insist and get it in writing That they have removed all programming that enables them to repossess your vehicle by itself John thanks very much always a pleasure always a lot of fun having you on I appreciate it You take care, right? All right you too