General Motors recently received a patent allowing the automaker to sell your radio's presets to the highest bidder at auction.
The patent — titled "System and method for auctioning geoboxed flexible, semi-locked or locked radio presets" — would let GM sell the presets to various bidders on different vehicles, Jalopnik reports, with each preset being geo-fenced.
Thus, if one were to be out on the road listening to NPR, the preset could switch abruptly from the sleepy sounds of "Morning Edition," to the "wacky" antics of Scumdog McTatertot and the Mötley Breakfäst Crüe once the motorist entered the winning bidder's geo-fence. Another scenario could have McDonald's hijack your navigation settings when you were looking for Starbucks for breakfast.
Though GM has the patent to do this to its consumers to bring in revenue from the connected-vehicle space, whether it acts on the patent remains to be seen.
[Source: Cadillac]
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