“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”
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!
The trick is simple: just don’t buy smart cars
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.
All this instead of just building more trains jfc
Can’t extract as much value with trains as you can with cars
Oops I installed AdShield Block, thanks for the discount car.
It’s not actually discounted though. They still make a heafty profit. They just mark up the alternative. Tomorrow they will make it more shitty and more expensive. Stock owners gotta extract ever more value. Line go up! End goal is to be a monopoly, protected by the law, get lots of money and provide little in value to anyonee in return.
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.
POV, huh.
Yes… a POV
My POV reading this post.
it’s seems that everyone uses lemmy on his phone.
Honestly I dont think the web ui is bad but stuff Like voyager is clearly superior
Reddit killed 3rd party apps, but people still need somewhere to get memes while pooping.
I don’t mean this rudely, but in English you would say “uses Lemmy on their phone”. I’m presuming this is German grammar or similar seeping through 😅
Only mentioning to avoid other people assuming you’re saying only men use Lemmy, not having a go at ya :)
Thank you. Not a native english speaker here, things like pronouns are often a headache to me. In spanish phone is a male substantive, that’s where the “his” come from.
Yeah all good friend. I commend your efforts in using a non-native language!
I had the good fortune to grow up with English, so never judge someone for making a mistake (and can relate with my German grammar, which is pretty bad, despite growing up with that too!)
I’ve seen this particular error often because German boardgames often are translated wrong, where they use “he” for “the player”.
Have a nice evening!
Only if the person paying the subscription isn’t the driver.
POV: It’s 2050 and youve wedged your head between the passenger headrest and the door pillar
BEEP “Eyes are not on the road!”
(The word ‘road’ has the word ‘ad’ in it).
Please drink verification can.
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.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.Text only GTA would be… interesting.
I welcome the new age of edgyrunners. Hacking(mostly script kiddy stuff but still) and modding is getting really popular.
They’ll start suttle but get bigger and bigger every year
suttlesubtle*
If yew don’t eat Fig Newtons than fuck yew.
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.
There is never enough ads.
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Hopefully they still have the “skip ad” feature after 15 seconds
They should at the very least connect this to your start and make it so you can’t start your car till you pay.
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.
Where I have I seen that dashboard?
It will make me drive in the wrong side?
“bro the fuck in already inline at McDonald’s why am I getting McDonald’s ads”
The future of “smart” ads
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?
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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.
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.
I’d also say we need more old school hackers and restorers, that is to say folks who can work on hardware. It may be illegal to crack some code but physically gutting something to spoof, hotwire, or bypass their shit software through entirely physical means works as a better long term method. Restoration and maintenance of old tech is a lot easier, half the time something is broken it’s either just a wire or the power being bad.
What is going on? I’ve now seen two of this exact joke on Lemmy but one is this picture and the other is a video of a different dude in a different car with a different ad in the windshield.
Someone made a funny joke and now 50 other TikTokers have to redo it.
