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schizoidman@schizoidman@lemmy.zip

BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat

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The AutopianBMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The AutopianYou know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, say, BMW. This is a machine with some status! Let’s say it costs, oh, $61,500, and you’re paying, what, about $1300 a month? Something […]
A_norny_mousse@A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip

Replying to an earlier post

It doesn’t make things much better, but:

the ad appears when the car is started, with an option to play it or not being displayed on the screen. I suppose that’s better than it autoplaying, but just barely.

Also, it doesn’t play while you’re driving.

BTW, according to BMW it’s not an ad, lol:

To celebrate the partnership with Spider-Man™: Brand New Day, BMW has a special surprise for its drivers. The Spider-Man™ Animation will be available (in participating markets) to all customers with suitably equipped vehicles … bla bla bla

Once again: since there’s no way of getting around surveillance & IoT bullshit in cars, I’m just going to have to take extremely good care of my old clunker.

Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨1⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨07:30⁩⁩en
BandDad@BandDad@lemmy.zip

Replying to @⁨A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip⁩

All electric, modular pickup truck starting at $24,000. The truck is highly modular in parts and accessories as well as mods to turn it into more of a crossover/2 row vehicle. Stock vehicle comes with crank windows and no radio by default. All things you can add (or remove/modify) at any time. It’s a startup, so it has yet to be seen how good of a reception it has.