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lol, you think Jeep care? Backlash sure, but five years later they're probably put advertising in your steering wheel.
I've found Jeep owners are their own brand of crazy. It's probably one of the few car cults that would endlessly put up with this kind of abuse because they just can't imagine NOT making their Jeep the core part of their identity.
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That has little to do with advertising though. When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.
Yeah, but at least buses and trains are accountable to the voter in one way or another... and I can still wear headphones.
Reason #999 for preferring home office. Soon long commutes will mean even more exposure to ads. It was already the case with billboards anyway. Now billboards are being forced inside your car.
You wouldn't run an ad blocker on your car... > But the problem could presage a more significant issue for future drivers. Last year, Ford filed a patent for an in-car advertising system that would use the car’s speakers and display screen to serve ads to drivers and passengers. That system would also use the car’s GPS tracker to serve ads relevant to the driver’s route. This is some Black Mirror type dystopian visio…
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Car-only infrastructure which is pervasive in America is a liability to the country and the economy. I can just not buy a TV and my life is great. Probably better. I can't not buy a car except in a few select locations if I want to participate in the economy. That's both dangerous and fragile.
Or you know...we could just not put ads in cars. People get so weird about easily solvable problems, like the developer who gets tasked to make the button red and instead writes an entire theme engine abstraction even though there's exactly one user.
Please tell me how I, someone who doesn't manufacture cars, can easily solve the problem of manufacturers choosing to put advertisements in cars?
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Car-only infrastructure which is pervasive in America is a liability to the country and the economy. I can just not buy a TV and my life is great. Probably better. I can't not buy a car except in a few select locations if I want to participate in the economy. That's both dangerous and fragile.
That has little to do with advertising though. When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.
Far more so in the US[0] than in any of the parts of Europe I've lived in or visited[1].
[0] Around much of CA, RI, MA, passing through NV and CT, and the cities of NYC, Salt Lake City and Newark in NY, UT and NJ.
[1] Spain, France, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungry, Finland, Greece, Cyprus.
You wouldn't run an ad blocker on your car... > But the problem could presage a more significant issue for future drivers. Last year, Ford filed a patent for an in-car advertising system that would use the car’s speakers and display screen to serve ads to drivers and passengers. That system would also use the car’s GPS tracker to serve ads relevant to the driver’s route. This is some Black Mirror type dystopian visio…
Dystopian doesn’t even begin to describe this situation. These executives are out of their mind.
IMHO ads in a car infotainment system should be outlawed. Let me focus on the road, and if I need to stare at the infotainment screen, let it be just for the GPS navigation.
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That has little to do with advertising though. When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.
Yes but you don't own the bus/train nor the road with the billboards. But supposedly, you do own the car. Do cars get cheaper by adding ads inside? Nope.
As opposed to a TV that you own? You even paid for the cable subscription.