Ford Patents in car system to show Advertisements

[Blackmagic71]

https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford...tising-patent/

It’s not as insidious as the potential for subscriptions features in future vehicles, but I could definitely see this ad thing happening eventually.

[Axel]

Ford can subscribe to Deez Nutz

[Cdn_Cuda]

Just think, every time yo stop at a red light your car will play an advertisement. Fun!

[packersrule729]

Solution: run red lights

[JonM]

Brought to you by Carl’s Junior.

[The Inflicted]

[markdem]

I heard about that one. The viewer has to say mcdonalds to skip the ad.

[Blackmagic71]

🤮

[Blackmagic71]

More technology in vehicles does seem to be a net loss for consumers and a giant carrot for the industry.

Manufacturers have also been selling driver data to third parties.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a6...small-profits/

[Chappy]

Distracted driving causes thousands of fatalities annually, but I’m sure this is fine…

[Chuck E Ducky]

Self driving cars are already safer statistically than the average driver. I’m sure that’s the idea behind the patient. Self driving , feed them adds while they watch Netflix on the way to work.

[Chuck E Ducky]

The more BS they add to these new cars the less I want one. I was looking at a new truck the prices are insane. I decided to build a resto mod square body instead. I can build a sick truck for half of the $100k buy in for a new one, and I won’t have my insurance company canceling my insurance because they pulled the on board snitch diagnostics off the black box. If I go old enough they are exempt from a ton of BS government red tape like emissions.

Give me a square body my welder and spot to build it I’m good. You can keep that electrical nightmare and your high interest rate mortgage payment trucks they looks like garbage today anyway.

[JeeperCreeper]

Any car that has ads can literally get f**d. Imagine you have to watch an ad before your stupid truck will let you go anywhere. This is worse than subscription based upgrades in cars.

[BLachance75]

Ford can’t get the sync radio to work correctly. I doubt they’ll be able to get this to work either

[OpusX]

Bought a new Crosstrek last year. First thing I did was pull the entire infotainment/starlink stack out and put in a classic single din dot matrix display cd/usb/bt radio. My cars a ghost and they can suck it.

[packersrule729]

The more BS they add to these new cars the less I want one. I was looking at a new truck the prices are insane. I decided to build a resto mod square body instead. I can build a sick truck for half of the $100k buy in for a new one, and I won’t have my insurance company canceling my insurance because they pulled the on board snitch diagnostics off the black box. If I go old enough they are exempt from a ton of BS government red tape like emissions.

Give me a square body my welder and spot to build it I’m good. You can keep that electrical nightmare and your high interest rate mortgage payment trucks they looks like garbage today anyway.

Did someone say square body?

ain’t no advertisements in this puppy (or airbags)

[JeeperCreeper]

"No airbags, we die like men"

[Chuck E Ducky]

I want that! Trade you CCMs

[BLachance75]

Yeah…I feel ya…but Subaru infotainment systems are sorta total trash, last or nearly last in the business.

The radio in our 2017 Impreza never had any issues. It also has a nicer image quality than the sync 3 radio in my 2023 Maverick.

[The Inflicted]

The radio in our 2018 Outback works ok, but there's an annoying lag when you connect to anything via Bluetooth- the audio in the car will be nearly half a second behind the phone's screen. Generally a non-issue when listening to podcasts but it can be frustrating if I'm scrubbing through a file or Youtube video to find what I want to listen to.

[Jordan]

Just a patent, guys.... they're trying to get ahead of the curve in case it becomes a viable option.

As far as i know, self driving cars don't exist yet - we have level 1 and 2 "driver assisted" cars, but no fully autonomous cars on the market yet (level 3 and 4) mostly because computers can only drive cars in a controlled environment with very specific variables. For now.