It's so insane how seemingly every company wants to fuck over all their customers these days. Their obsession with fucking infinite growth.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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I'm surprised Dodge is trying this considering the thousands of memes of BMW implementing pay to use features on their vehicle ever since they added subscription heated seats.
Memes only matter if they effect revenue. If profit climbed then the stupid stays.
Memes don't matter if revenue climbed
Whenever I upgrade my car, if it has this “feature “ I will immediately change out the system.
"Please subscribe to continue operating your vehicle"
time for a new sound system then, lmao
If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.
Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn't enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?
I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.
cringe cyberpunk. worst genre to live in. at least in the grim darkness of the future you can admit how bad it is.
“Glitch”
More like
“Let’s see how people react”
Didn't another car manufacturer have a similar "glitch" with in-car ads fairly recently? This story feels so familiar.
Yes, Jeep, owned by Stellantis who also owns Dodge.
Blows my mind that this kind of stuff isn’t a safety issue… I guess as long as it’s “touch-free” it’s not considered distracted driving lol
it literally is a safety issue. people are going to die over this. it's just not illegal.
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It seems like displaying an ad at a stop light would be a safety issue since it makes it so you can onky look at the screen while moving.
Not to mention it has the potential to completely distract the driver when the light turns green and other traffic starts moving again.
I mean like I need another reason to NOT buy a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram
We need root on our car computers.
We need more dead ceos
And smart TVs, doorbell cameras, robo-vacuums, etc etc.
This is just asking to get rickroll’d.
If you just do a standing burnout at every light will it not pop up?
They'll start using the traction control sensors to circumvent this life hack
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