Summary: The series that we published at the end of 2021 seems very relevant now that Ford's Board of Directors welcomes Deere CEO John May

We recently did a 5-part series about the loss of control over cars that we pay for. Here are the 5 parts all in one place:

• The Car Drives You -- Part I -- You Own Nothing
• The Car Drives You -- Part II -- Turning Computers and Cars Into Restrictive 'Consoles' With DRM
• The Car Drives You -- Part III -- The Very Concept of a Car Has Changed
• The Car Drives You -- Part IV -- Today's Cars Come With Up to 3,000 Chips and Security Isn't of Concern
• The Car Drives You -- Part V -- Part of the Coming War on General Computation

We're meanwhile seeing, in the past few days' news, that DRM inside vehicles is a phenomenon that spreads further and more widely. From our upcoming batch of Daily Links:

• Deere CEO John May brought onto Ford board of directors
• Ford Motor Co. beefs up tech strength with director known for global dominance

"The direction that Ford may be heading can be as bad or worse than where John Deere is now," an associate of ours notes. "The people forced to buy cars have no choice but to accept whatever is pushed on them by the dealers and the dealers promote what they are told to promote by the manufacturers. That's how the world ended up with everyone commuting to work in what are legally and tonnage-wise actually medium sized trucks."

Deere's abuse of the concept of 'ownership' was noted early in the above series. One can safely predict or expect things to get worse, not better. See the video below. ⬆

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