High-Tech RepoMan

PlayfullyClever writes "A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system, the gadget comes in a handful of versions with one common conclusion: No pay, no start. It's worked wonders at Norfolk's Patriot Auto Sales, where nearly every car that drives off the lot is outfitted with a PayTeck Smart Box, a system that hands over a five-digit code in exchange for each payment. Come due date, the car won't crank until the customer punches the code into a palm-size keypad wired into the dash. I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money."

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frost post

[Anonymous Coward]

for the north pole

Re:There are several competing systems like this

[Anonymous Coward]

> Yet another example of the government being in the pockets of corporations.

Yet another example of people who fucked their lives up and ended up in a trailer somehow thinking that that imbues them with some sort of holy righteousness that says they should get a really great car with a bow on the hood and a bell on the bumper, and they should get it for free and get a complimentary reacharound because they're just good ol' common folk who are being held down by the jackboots of evil big business!

You know what? A lot of poor people deserve it, so fuck 'em.

Re:What the hell

[DarkTempes]

Prey on people.

I wish they prayed on people! Well, maybe not directly on them, maybe just for them.

Re:Cars are overrated

[Chessucat]

Drive uninsured!  Fuck the State!  Viva la Revolucion'!!

<chessucat raises the paw>