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Repos are extremely costly. My friend let his car get repossessed because he did not need it anymore thinking that was easier than selling it and there wouldn't be any negatives other than on his credit. He was surprised to get sued for the cost of the repo, which was thousands plus they managed to sell the car for much less than it was worth.


I wonder how costly it would be if one of these self-driving cars killed a bystander while repo-ing itself.


They'll bill it to the person they repossessed it from. Someone will introduce a bill to make them liable for murder, on the grounds that they were engaged in defrauding the car company and are therefore a felon.


Probably similar in cost to the people killed by human tow truck drivers.


That sounds more costly for the tow truck driver than for Ford.




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