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BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display
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Consumer Rights WikiBMW Spider-Man in-car advertisingOn July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...
Replying to @stumu415@lemmy.zip
Oh great. Most BMW drivers are already distracted and incompetent enough. This bullshit will just make them an even bigger hazard.
Replying to @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
Just replace the ads with instructions on proper turn signal usage.
Replying to @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
Lane departure warning system should make the car unable to change lane without signal. This way and combine with the stupid steer-by-wire system, signal is mandatory.
Replying to @psx_crab@lemmy.zip
That sounds like a great way to guarantee every crash becomes a 100+ car pileup…
Replying to @impairedimperator@lemmy.zip
With tech like that, surely they would also have other ADAS build in to make sure that wouldn’t happen.
Replying to @psx_crab@lemmy.zip
I’d hope it’s tech that works 100% of the time, too (lol).
I had a rental with lane assist once, and that shit nearly killed me when a dude drifted into my lane and my car decided I needed to stay in the same lane and not move over to avoid them. Thankfully cranking the wheel way harder than I should be at highway speeds overrode the lane assist.