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[jamcg]

https://drivetribe.com/p/ford-files-pat ... ce=organic

Ford have filed a patent for in car advertising

[mik]

https://drivetribe.com/p/ford-files-pat ... ce=organic

Ford have filed a patent for in car advertising

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[Simon]

If the regs say you can't be shown TV whilst driving then no-way will they allow ads to be served either. Screw Ford and their stupid patent.

[dinny_g]

Won’t be an issue for Autonomous Driving mode though, will it??

That seems like a clever, forward thinking patent. As your Ford drives you along the high street, shops and business you pass can advertise to you with convenient links booking etc

[Simon]

That's decades away though. How long is a patent valid for?

[DeskJockey]

That'll put me off AD cars (and probably many others). What an awful idea.

[ZedLeg]

I joked that Tesla would start running ads through the screen on their cars a wee while ago and instantly realised it was definitely coming. Because the world is a capitalist nightmare

[dinny_g]

That's decades away though. How long is a patent valid for?

25 years isn't it ???

[Beany]

I joked that Tesla would start running ads through the screen on their cars a wee while ago and instantly realised it was definitely coming. Because the world is a capitalist nightmare

I can't wait to get three months of adverts for cheap coffins after being geotagged to a funeral home for a death in the family.

[ZedLeg]

I remember someone suggesting that some previous bit of tech (maybe google glasses w augmented reality) would let businesses advertise and promote special deals to people as they walked past their stores. Finally time for that idea to shine.

[nuttinnew]

Feck all that advertising malarkey, though commercial radio has always been a pita anyway.



Here's summat for t' Scotchers, somewhere that's on the list of places I've still got to visit;

[nuttinnew]

Cowell may be an inactive poster;

[dinny_g]

Anyone notice the new Seat Ibiza Feel the Beat advert - Blatant rip-off of Flat Eric or more of a homage ??

[mik]

Hmmm - “homage” is generous.

And no opportunity to post the original should ever be missed.

[ZedLeg]

[Simon]

I love this simple video



I long wondered about getting my pilots license years ago. Not that I need another hobby that I don't really have time for, planes generally terrify me AND it's an enormous financial commitment to keep up your flying hours every year, I did love the trial lesson I did a few years back out of Shoreham, and it would be wicked to put on my CV that I had a PPL. My local aerodrome is only 10 minutes away (no, not Gatwick!), and my wife supports me in pretty much anything I want to do.

[John]

The closest airfield to me is the shortest in the UK, a great place to learn I’m sure

[mik]

A thread...

[Jobbo]

Brilliant. Wonder how Meeka the munchkin would turn out?

[V8Granite]

That'll put me off AD cars (and probably many others). What an awful idea.

Yep the same, I will take great joy in the future when I jump in my car without my phone and drive around genuinely free.

Car companies advertising, tracking and generally involving themselves in my life can fuck off. A car is a tool like a spoon, not a way to intrude.

Dave!