Ford has submitted a patent to automate the vehicle repo processs. www.theverge.com

Those include sending messages to the owner’s smartphone or the vehicle itself, locking drivers out entirely, disabling functions like air conditioning, geofencing drivers to only operate within a certain time or set area so they can still get to work, and in one especially harrowing example, enabling an autonomous car to just drive itself to an impound lot — or a junkyard if the car’s market value is determined to be below a certain threshold.

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you