{"id":105012,"date":"2018-03-27T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105012"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:35:03","slug":"black-mirror-in-china-part-2-the-car-vending-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/black-mirror-in-china-part-2-the-car-vending-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mirror in China Part 2: The car vending machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvJFluC3A5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/26\/17163478\/ford-alibaba-cat-car-vending-machine-china\">The Verge<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=72&amp;v=NvJFluC3A5s\">YouTube (Alibaba)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week we told you about the very real restrictions that Chinese citizens with low social credit scores face. Anybody who has a low social credit score, which comes from social and financial behavior faces travel restrictions that\u2019ll last for up to a year. This week we\u2019re bringing you the flip side of this dystopian nightmare. <strong>The perks of having a high social credit score.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we head into a fully automated future, the idea of arbitrary responses from virtual machines seems all the more terrifying if you have a low social credit score. The flip side is that a positive score, like 700 points, could get you access all sorts of goodies<strong>.<\/strong> 700 is 150 more points than you start out with before you\u2019ve made any transactions that affect your social credit score. One such example, in Guangzhou, is a <strong>cat-themed vending machine that spits out Fords for free test drives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vending machine is the result of a <strong>partnership between online retailing giant Alibaba and American car manufacturer Ford.<\/strong> All Alibaba customers need to do is select the model of car they want to test drive on their Tmall app, snap a selfie of themselves, and then turn up at the selected time. They\u2019ll get a 3-day test drive for free, citizens with lower scores will have to pay, and they\u2019ll even be able to then buy the car directly through the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Verge \/ YouTube (Alibaba) Last week we told you about the very real restrictions that Chinese citizens with low social credit scores face. Anybody who has a low social credit score, which comes from social and financial behavior faces travel restrictions that\u2019ll last for up to a year. This week we\u2019re bringing you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/black-mirror-in-china-part-2-the-car-vending-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Mirror in China Part 2: The car vending machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1034,1041],"usertag":[781],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-money","tag-travel","usertag-purchaser"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328137,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105012\/revisions\/328137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105012"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105012"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105012"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}