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A lot of this sort of thing is a stealth recoding. If someone else has a kill switch, you’ve basically bought an monthly pass on an asset owned by a private transit system. It’s not “your” car. Being shut out is more like being denied a bus ride because you can’t afford the fare.
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If they didn't pay, you could remotely cut off the ignition and send a precise location to your repo man. Smart killswitches let you impose fine-grained control over debtors - say, enforcing a rule against driving over the county line. dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/mis 18/
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Hmm. Regulators might usefully focus on clearer language. Like just requiring transactions to be labeled rentals rather than purchases under certain conditions.
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Even in a sane scenario where the killswitch merely prevents the car from starting again, this would lead to some gruesome liability fights even if it was currently legal. Legislatively, that sort of property-through-license serfdom would require a failed democracy.
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