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Should this be illegal? No, probably not. Is this the future I want to live in? Also no.

by causi 5y ago

ahoka 5y ago
Yes, it should be. You pay extra in your fees to cover the possible loss of the entity giving you a loan, but they want the extra and not having to deal with the possible loss. They should just suck it up TBH.
stevewodil 5y ago
Seriously, they chase down normal cars for repossession I don’t feel strongly that this is all that different than it getting towed from your driveway. Would I be really annoyed if it was my car? Yeah, but at the same time it’s up for repo either way. We already knew that Tesla HQ can control the cars for service and such
- greenshackle2 5y ago
  Not only that, some lots that sell to high risk buyers (e.g. buy here pay here) already install GPS devices on their cars: https://passtimegps.com/industries/bhph/ https://passtimegps.com/industries/bhph/
_Microft 5y ago
> Is this the future I want to live in? For me neither. As much as I admire Musk for being the driving force behind the progress that his companies are making for electric mobility and especially space launch but a guy who fetishizes a dystopian cyberpunk future and works on hooking up brains to computers might have slightly different vision for the future than you and me.
ryanmercer 5y ago
It's already the future you live in. Repo agents, for decades, will roll up on a vehicle and hook it up to a tow truck and take off. People go out of their way to hide their vehicles, or block them in with other vehicles, when they haven't paid their loan and know their vehicle is now eligible for repossession. This just makes it safer for the repo agents, because they can recover the vehicle faster and don't have to risk some nutjob running out of a house/apartment/office with a bat/gun/knife trying to confront them because someone was like "Dave, someone's hooking your car up to a tow truck".
dylan604 5y ago
> Is this the future I want to live in? Also no. No need to fret the future my friend. The future is now. This dystopian future people keep fearing is happening now. It is the present reality.
- gretch 5y ago
  No it’s really not. This is hyperbole. Things are literally better now than ever before. More access to food, healthcare, and literacy on average for everyone in the world. More protection of basic human rights on average for everyone in the world. If now is the dystopian future, when in the past would you like to time travel to? Before or after polio vaccine? Gay rights? Before/after Abolition of slavery (in select countries)?
  - dylan604 5y ago
    It's must be sad for people to go through life with no ability to appreciate comedy whether it is good or bad. To think everything is so draconian in that it must be exactly how you want it to be is just further proof that it's darker than you want to believe.
    - gretch 5y ago
      I appreciate comedy, you're just not funny. You think comedy is just saying things that are false? Oh look, I'll just say the opposite of everything - haha wit!
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Should this be illegal? No, probably not. Is this the future I want to live in? Also no.

by causi 5y ago

Should this be illegal? No, probably not. Is this the future I want to live in? Also no.

Yes, it should be. You pay extra in your fees to cover the possible loss of the entity giving you a loan, but they want the extra and not having to deal with the possible loss. They should just suck it up TBH.

stevewodil 5y ago

Seriously, they chase down normal cars for repossession I don’t feel strongly that this is all that different than it getting towed from your driveway. Would I be really annoyed if it was my car? Yeah, but at the same time it’s up for repo either way. We already knew that Tesla HQ can control the cars for service and such

greenshackle2 5y ago
Not only that, some lots that sell to high risk buyers (e.g. buy here pay here) already install GPS devices on their cars: https://passtimegps.com/industries/bhph/ https://passtimegps.com/industries/bhph/

_Microft 5y ago

> Is this the future I want to live in? For me neither. As much as I admire Musk for being the driving force behind the progress that his companies are making for electric mobility and especially space launch but a guy who fetishizes a dystopian cyberpunk future and works on hooking up brains to computers might have slightly different vision for the future than you and me.

ryanmercer 5y ago

It's already the future you live in. Repo agents, for decades, will roll up on a vehicle and hook it up to a tow truck and take off. People go out of their way to hide their vehicles, or block them in with other vehicles, when they haven't paid their loan and know their vehicle is now eligible for repossession. This just makes it safer for the repo agents, because they can recover the vehicle faster and don't have to risk some nutjob running out of a house/apartment/office with a bat/gun/knife trying to confront them because someone was like "Dave, someone's hooking your car up to a tow truck".

dylan604 5y ago

> Is this the future I want to live in? Also no. No need to fret the future my friend. The future is now. This dystopian future people keep fearing is happening now. It is the present reality.

gretch 5y ago
No it’s really not. This is hyperbole. Things are literally better now than ever before. More access to food, healthcare, and literacy on average for everyone in the world. More protection of basic human rights on average for everyone in the world. If now is the dystopian future, when in the past would you like to time travel to? Before or after polio vaccine? Gay rights? Before/after Abolition of slavery (in select countries)?
- dylan604 5y ago
  It's must be sad for people to go through life with no ability to appreciate comedy whether it is good or bad. To think everything is so draconian in that it must be exactly how you want it to be is just further proof that it's darker than you want to believe.
  - gretch 5y ago
    I appreciate comedy, you're just not funny. You think comedy is just saying things that are false? Oh look, I'll just say the opposite of everything - haha wit!

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