Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And if you don't pay it, you can't access your car's network.

Yeah.

But your car's network is still active and it's giving data about your car to the automaker, just not to you.

And the worst is subprime car leasing.

So like if you're poor and you can't get a regular car lease, there's this whole market, it's worth a couple trillion dollars called subprime car leasing.

And...

those cars are fitted out with all kinds of crazy surveillance gear yeah uh and also they have like some of them have a second stereo system that the user can't control that if you're day late on your payments just blairs at top volume you are late on your payments you are late are you serious yeah yeah and if you like go too late they like immobilize your car uh even like some of these leases will say you can't take it across the county line and so the new york times wrote about this there was a woman who like took the kids on a drive to the forest

And they went over the county line without realizing it.

And then the car wouldn't start and they were stuck in the woods.

Like it's very bad.

And so they repo these cars over and over again.

The leases are like any subprime credit arrangement.

They're designed to like balloon and make it so you can't afford it later.

So you have like a teaser rate and a balloon rate.

And so then they repo the car and then they sell it to another poor person.

So they sell the same car to like 10 poor people.

And so basically, you can make loans to progressively worse credit risks if it's easier and easier to repo the- Because the risk on your side is almost non-existent.

You're offloading the risk, right?

So they just have basically this whole sideline of repo tech Teslas.

There's a dealer option where if you are late on your payments, the Tesla will lock itself up, summon the repo man to the parking lot, and then blow its horn and blink its lights when the repo man gets there and back up and unlock its doors so they can get in.

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