I’m still trying to figure out how it’s legal to have massive advertisements lining roadways specifically designed to distract drivers.
it's coming sooner than 2050
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it was ford that submitted a patent for a camera that points forward, reads bilboards, then plays a video on your dash. I hate how shitty technology is being used all in the name of money and advertising.
Well never reach any kind of utopian future where things just work and technology is used for good. It’s not about helping and feeding the needy, it’s all about satisfying the wealthy. It’s a disgusting timeline, literal rapists and genocidal maniacs running countries.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Off subject, but I wonder if these UAP sightings by the air force and navy are optical illusions, perhaps projected onto windshields.
Because they were shown to be defying physics, it’s the least fantastical explanation I can think of that fits what is undeniably true, those that deny the facts as they are notwithstanding.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
This is the real reason tech is pushing self-driving cars. If you don’t need to see the road, you can look at more advertisements.
And they’ll sell it as a cost-saving feature, like smart TVs and Kindle tablets. “We can provide this at a reasonable price because the costs are subsidized with advertising.” You can buy a car with a traditional windshield for $80k or with an AdShield ™ for $40k.
Blibly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All this instead of just building more trains jfc
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Can’t extract as much value with trains as you can with cars
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
self-driving cars
Something I’ve never understood about self-driving cars is why would you want the expense of owning one if you’re not driving it? It’s like how rich people used to own expensive cars but employed a chauffeur and never drove themselves.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
“bro the fuck in already inline at McDonald’s why am I getting McDonald’s ads”
The future of “smart” ads
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Does it make someone a profit?
Must be good according to the free market.
We will never escape the drive to enshitification under capitalism, even if we manage to get some good regulations in the short-term, a subset of reforms will always eventually be undone or loopholed.
Line must go up.
Dear lord give me Socialism in our timePlease join your local, non-Stalinist, socialist organisations and together win Socialism in our time.inb4 someone pointing out all the shitty regimes that called themselves “Socialist”. It’s not socialist unless it’s democratic, how else do the workers control society if they can’t decide collectively how to run society?
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
He’s lucky to have the window rolling subscription
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ll remove the à la carte pricing once they’ve lulled you in with it.
rounding_error@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Fuck, I can actually foresee McDonald’s advertisements being holographic projected into the bottom corner of your windshield. It’s not even much worse than what car companies are already doing with your car.
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
There is never enough ads.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hopefully they still have the “skip ad” feature after 15 seconds
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And it’ll be the same four fucking ads, over and over and over!
My freemium homies know what I’m talking about…
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Hi, my name is ryan reynolds, do you want your own ai fuck toy to cum in 30 seconds…
apric0t@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Post a selfy with your delicious bag of McD’s and the hashtag #imlovinit to receive 20 minutes of ad-free windshield time! Ba da ba ba baaa”
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My car keeps saying “time for a McDonald’s break!” and pulling into the drive-through. I’ve been here for five hours, please send help!
tough_cookies@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Plot twist: In 2050, McDonald’s restaurants no longer exist, and nobody eats there anymore. However, the company still generates $66B per year with their “ad free” subscription model.
clickthebuton@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spend your money wisely. The market can’t sustain what there is no demand for.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They know this, and that’s why they wait to do things like this until they know you have relatively little choice.
Not that you shouldn’t care, but it’s worth remembering the guiding hand of the market is not an all powerful weapon.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Indeed, without competition and regulation the free market doesn’t work, and never has.
The manufacturers are in Trusts, secretly cooperating on not competing and maximizing profit at the expense of consumers and product and service quality.
That said, we still shouldn’t buy their shit when possible, and to disable problematic things when possible, (which is a federal crime, introduced in the 90’s at the behest of CD companies/record companies, whereby any type of digital lock cannot be broken without suffering 4 years in federal prison.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, at the current rate this is ~2027-28
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They’ll start suttle but get bigger and bigger every year
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They should at the very least connect this to your start and make it so you can’t start your car till you pay.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
They already do with remote starts with some vehicles. I forget which.
Also some cars I think use your phone as the key, so if you lose your phone, it breaks, is hacked, turned off, stolen, etcetera, you can’t use your vehicle.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it ever gets this bad Imma grab my SKS and go innawoods.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where I have I seen that dashboard?
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The trick is simple: just don’t buy smart cars
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
RESUME VIEWINGmyyass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I welcome the new age of edgyrunners. Hacking(mostly script kiddy stuff but still) and modding is getting really popular.
Mardukas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
POV huh
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
POV: It’s 2050 and youve wedged your head between the passenger headrest and the door pillar
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
BEEP “Eyes are not on the road!”
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Your POV subscription has also lapsed and you’re stuck in 3rd person view. If this su scription is not paid then you will be downgraded to top down (GTA1) view before finally going to the basic plan of text only console.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes… a POV
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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