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- Title
REMOTE REPOSSESSION.
- Authors
Crootof, Rebecca
- Abstract
Ford's February 2023 patent application raises a new possibility: that after a default, an internet-connected vehicle might autonomously drive itself off of the owner's premises--to a public space, to the repossession agency, or even to a junkyard. But while this "remote repossession" would minimize the risks of harm that attend in-person repossessions, it creates at least three new risks. First, a danger of bodily injury and property damage to the owner. Second, an increased likelihood of physical harm to a third-party with no obviously responsible entity. And third, most invisibly but also perhaps most importantly: further erosion of consumers' current structural rights--which might include a right against intrusions, a right to a certain amount of due process and human engagement before a repossession, and a right to be free from foreseeable harms associated with corporate remote interference. I employ a techlaw methodology to explore what legal changes would better protect us--as potential defaulting owners, as possibly harmed third-parties, and as consumers who must increasingly rely on corporations to take reasonable care when engaging in digital self-help.
- Subjects
FORD, Gerald R., 1913-2006; DUE process of law; PATENT applications; PUBLIC spaces; PROPERTY damage; CONSUMERS
- Publication
DePaul Law Review, 2024, Vol 73, Issue 2, p369
- ISSN
0011-7188
- Publication type
Article