Ford Patent

A newly published patent application from Ford takes a novel approach to dealing with dead car batteries. The patent proposes using drones to help jumpstart stranded vehicles and get them back on the road. But the technology comes with roadblocks of its own that have skeptics questioning whether it’s worth the effort, expense, and hassle. […]

The idea of a vehicle intended for human transport being possessed, haunted, sentient, or able to communicate with (and in some cases assume autonomous control of its functions from) its human operators predates Stephen King’s Christine by at least several hundred years. With the advent of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles and the vast array of