Sort of tangentially, it would be tragically hilarious if public self-driving or car-sharing car eco-systems won't succeed because of the ever encroaching advertising/salesman.
You know you're onto something when you're making private car ownership appealing to a public transport advocate.
/no one mention the dystopia where i can't block out ads, pitches and sales from my own private vehicle/house :P
I'm just envisioning a scenario where the car automatically pulls to the side of the highway, locks the doors and dishes you with a 15 second ad, and then the doors unlock and the journey resumes as normal.
I'm an accelerationist when it comes to advertising, so this can't happen fast enough. The ad "targeting" will be even shittier than it is now! This van only has ten when consumers revolt.
Wow. We are really moving into a sad future where we will be watched and advertised to all the time. I guess self driving cars will also have an ad screen you probably can turn off for a premium.
Just wait (a few years, perhaps) until you buy or rent that sweet new self-driving car and try to get out of town for some rest and relaxation... you turned off the radio, but that doesn't matter, because Big G uses the windshield as a billboard looming into your personal space, beaming ads to the most captive audience that exists.
I hope this style of advertisement becomes the next generation of the age-old "I MUST BE CRAZY TO BE OFFERING THESE DEALS" that car salesmen have made popular.
"OUR ROBOTS ARE MALFUNCTIONING AND OFFERING CUHRAAAAZY DEALS"
Good point. What are people going to do when they’re sitting in their autonomous vehicles? Probably a great time to display an ad for the week’s best selling AR game.
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