Future Ford vehicles could repossess themselves or go into a "lockout condition" if the driver misses payments, according to a recently-published patent application. Ford Global Technologies filed a ...

Imagine being a couple of weeks late on your car payment and starting your Mustang or F-150 on a hot day only to discover the air conditioning doesn’t work. If Ford secures a patent it applied for in ...

Imagine it's the near future, and you've bought a new car with a self-driving mode. But hard times hit and you fall behind on loan payments – then, one day you find your car has driven itself away to ...

Ford had an idea that would allow a car to repossess itself and drive back to a specific location if the buyer missed payments. Now, it appears that the Blue Oval has abandoned that patent.

A newly published patent application from Ford has revealed that the American automaker wants to be able to lock drivers out of their vehicles for nonpayment and even allow the vehicle to repossess ...

The Ford Motor Co. filed for a patent relating to technology that would remotely repossess cars affiliated with missing payments. “An owner of a vehicle may default on a payment towards a vehicle for ...