The manufacturers were opposed to them being required. I think they claimed it would cost an extra $200-250 per car. But they sure won’t pass up on the ads if they think they can get away with it!
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Rear view cameras have been required by law for a few years now. I’m pretty sure it was a ploy by manufacturers to get a screen on every dashboard so they could sell ads.
jqubed@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Peak lemming take
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re not wrong? It’s an open secret in the business world that information is the new gold. M
If something is free, you’re the product.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
But a rear view camera isn’t free, you usually buy it as an option.
Also, I have never seen an ad on any dashboard screen. Maybe if you installed some android app, but never from the manufacturer themselves.
kif@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
I mean, it’s not an option if it’s required by law. As to your second point, I have seen news articles talking about “sponsored recommendations”, but nothing as blatant as tv/radio ads. stuff.co.nz/…/ev-drivers-be-bombarded-incar-adver…
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
My guess is that you’re not in the US like I am, but I hear so many ridiculous stories and laws over there which are privacy-invasive, because it is not a secret that corporations and governments want data to surveil and manipulate its citizens, and then train AI.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I am the product of linux
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Negative. They were very against the law. A guy backed over and killed his own child and made it a multi year mission to force back up cameras as a requirement. Politicians look bad if they don’t want to “save the children.”
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Politicians look bad if they don’t want to “save the children.”
How many school shootings so far this year?
stickly@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re the manufacturers. They could just… Put a screen in anyway?
Consumers definitely want the cameras regardless of legislation. It’s one of the very few decent features added to cars recently.
FishFace@piefed.social 8 hours ago
This is a conspiracy theory as nuts as fake moon landings
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
People in their big SUVs were running over their kids in the driveway. Similar to people in their Ford exploders that were rolling over because they didn’t check their tire pressures and the negligence of Firestone causing tires to seperate, so they now have tpms sensors.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Law where??? I still see junker cars from the 60s driving around here where I live.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
For new car sales.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
us transportation made it a law in 2014 but effective 2018 that all vehicles made after 2018 under 10000 pounds are required to have a backup screen. so any new car made in the reletive past decade will probably have one. laws for cars are not retroactive usually.
dryfter@ani.social 11 hours ago
Just curious if you’re aware of any laws for cars that ARE/HAVE BEEN retroactive?
Just generically I can’t really think of anything that “could be”, but I’m no mechanic or lawyer. 🤣
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Some emissions regulations are retroactive in a sense, in that they prohibit continued operation of vehicles that were compliant at time of manufacture.
For example, it’s illegal to operate diesel heavy trucks 2010 and older in California, with limited exemptions for highly specialized vehicles.
These sort of regulations are rare, as it really pisses people off.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
off the top of my head, no. but I know for the seatbelt law at least, if a car before the mandatory seatbelt law had optional seatbelts, having the seatbelt became mandatory. Cars that had no seatbelts nor had optional ones are exempt.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Maybe around car alarms?
The after market ones are awful, but car theft in the early 2000s was also way higher (like 2x) than anything we’ve seen since.
velindora@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
Portland? Haha
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’ve never seen an ad on my car’s screen. My brother’s car from 2013 has a backup camera, and that car literally cannot communicate to any server that could serve ads.
If car companies wanted to put ads on screens, they wouldn’t need an excuse to put in a screen, they’d just do it. But they wouldn’t do that, because ads are a safety hazard and they’d have their pants sued off. I can’t even connect a new Bluetooth device to my car (pressing 1 button) unless the parking brake is applied. Stellantis is in hot water for their braindead attempt at “ads” in their cars, and that’s just a pop-up that shows up when the car is stopped.
Not even Google maps advertises to me when I use Android Auto, and ads are Google’s thing
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I also hate ads, but I think it was more likely to minimize how many children old people were squashing :
www.iihs.org/research-areas/bibliography/…/2130