# Miss a car payment? Your autonomous car will repossess itself

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**Created:** [March 1, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-a-car-payment-your-autonomous-car-will-repossess-itself/980552 "2023-03-01T18:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-a-car-payment-your-autonomous-car-will-repossess-itself/980552/11 "2023-03-01T19:18:19Z")

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> [@Briny\_Deep](#):
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> I am a terrible pessimist, granted, but I can easily envision a future in which this is required among many other dystopian nightmares. We’ll want to drive an old Chevy from the 1970s to avoid being tracked in everything we do, but the new features will be mandatory and the old cars will be gradually outlawed.

Could be a Chevy.

Could also be a **[Red Barchetta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta)**:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uukZgfHZIoc/hqdefault.jpg "Rush-Red Barchetta (Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukZgfHZIoc)

ETA: the **[short story](http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19731100roadandtrack.htm)** from which the Rush song originated

ETA2: and a **[totally cool story](http://www.bmwbmw.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8693&hilit=red+barchetta)** about the short story’s author meeting, and taking a motorcycle ride, with Rush’s legendary drummer, Neil Peart.

[Because rabbit holes]

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