Fuck this shit. I don't even want to ever buy a newer car these days. Too much invasive bullshit.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Disgusting. Why would anyone pay for that?
Easy, they call their cars something like renegade or maveric and some idiots pay 80k for that shitbox
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Just you wait until the windshields become screens as well. Full windshield ads baybe!
In USSR, despite all its downsides, there was a huge upside - magazines like "Техника - молодежи" and various educational brochures of the practical kind, aimed at explaining how to really make something.
And also a certain culture of hobbies associated with that, I guess all the energy from boredom went there.
So - I've read about competitions of hobby-crafted cars then. Like 20 guys would make some (like half of it would be something used in usual Soviet cars, think Reagan and the 10 years joke) parts of a car in their garages and apartments (and even at work, if they worked on some factory, for example ; in general workplace in USSR was, eh, a bit more permanent of an association, so the border between personal life and work, including tools, was fuzzy), then assemble them.
I think that could even be registered as a legal means of transportation. At least from what I've heard there is (or was) a surprisingly liberal part of Russian laws, allowing you to register almost anything as a car and get a number, with some criteria passed. Maybe these two things are related.
This is just one of the many reasons I have no interest in new cars. If it needs an internet connection then I'm not buying it. There are very few things I need my vehicle to be able to do and having access to internet isn't one of them. I don't even like that my truck has automatic wipers - I vastly prefer the traditional ones. Hell, I don't even need the radio.
Honestly, fuck the whole thing, I'll take my bike. With blackjack. And hookers.
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"Speed", but instead of a vehicle exploding, it's to avoid ads.
Officer, "Why'd you run that red light?"
Me, "If I hear the Meow Mix jingle one more time I'm gonna snap!"
Jeep, having heard you mention a product, dutifully plays the relevant ad.
Officer: Why were you speeding?
Me: Wanted to avoid ads.
This isn't even funny... This is something people will do. Jeep doesn't give a fuck about safety. FUCK Jeep.
Jeep isn't a true company anymore it's just another brand under Stellantis. So FUCK stellantis and every other brand under them.
Video showing ads on dashboard.
Video itself starts with a QR code ad embedded into it. And it's on Youtube so who knows how many ads I skipped with uBlock...
Adception.
Hey, you might want to team up with Sony...
Wasnt there also something about showing ads while your show is paused now too?
I'm ready to go back to kodi.
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Absolutely fucking not.
Though it does sound like a good kicker for the after market systems to make a comeback.
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Holy shit. For the love of Luigi, this is terrorism.
It's only terrorism when poor people do it.
There are no high end middle class cars now. Used be if you got an audi, merc, beamer etc. You were part of an in group where youngot extras. Now you spend 80K and they want you to subscribe for cruise control and AC. Lambourghini and porsche dropped back to entrr the market and only brought their badge.
Jeep is a Stellantis product. Literally the worst quality auto manufacturer in North America. They are circling the drain and jacking up the prices on their vehicles and making Pikachu faces when they don't sell. Their only customers are people who don't know how to research their purchases, and putting advertisement hell into their cars is another example of that. I suspect they will not be in business a decade from now.
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