Ford trying to create tech that would tell cops if someone speeds

Future Ford cars might detect speeding cars while you’re driving and report them directly to the police, thanks to a patent that the automaker filed and published recently.

Yes, you heard that right — other cars could potentially tell on you when you bend the rules, and you – with your car’s information – could be reported automatically.

This technology sounds like it came straight out of a dystopian future world, but there has to be a reason why Ford has chosen to work on the tech.

After all, you shouldn’t be speeding in the first place.

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Ford filed a patent for ‘monitoring’ tech

While the automaker originally filed the patent back in January 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published it on July 18.

As discovered by Motor Authority, it comes with the name ‘Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations’ and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

Now, if we dive a bit deeper into the technicalities, it appears that Ford came up with more than one way to report speeding cars to the police.

Ideally, the tech would use 360-degree cameras on a car to watch the road.

If someone blazed past that car while well over the speed limit, it would further ‘capture’ some information to give to the police to identify it later.

That piece of information would likely be its license plate, make, or color.

How will the cops be involved?

In addition, this tech would then send the captured information to a patrolling police car nearby.

It’s certainly a bizarre way to catch offenders, but there’s more.

The other solution is to give the police complete control of a car’s onboard cameras whenever the tech detects a speeding vehicle.

It’s also not the first time Ford has experimented with tech that involves speeding, as it previously tried its hands at tech that would slow you down when you change speed zones.

As controversial as this could be, the entire thing is a research project for now.

Nobody knows if Ford will actually implement something like this in the future, but that also doesn’t mean the automaker might scrap the whole thing altogether.

As for us, we will have to wait and see how it goes.

If you take one thing away from this – drive safely, and remember that the speed limit is there for a reason.