Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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    Feel like ads in cars should be illegal, but the US doesn’t have a government that believes in good things.

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      This is the defacto stance of advertising agencies doing horrible things.

      “OOHHHH, You mean you DIDN’T want ads on your coffee maker or vibrator??? Our bad. This was a technical error we will fix immediately!”

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        They don’t admit it’s a mistake, call it an error, or try to fix. They call it a feature.

        Vote with wallet

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        Back at the office:

        So it seems people don’t like ads on their vibrator which means they are viewing them. Let’s wait a couple of years for the anger to die down then do it again.

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    It’s kind of sweet that they write that you need at least RAM 1500 to get these ads in your truck, so that the solution simply is to install less RAM in your truck if you don’t want the ads. (I’ve never owned a truck so I don’t know how much RAM is normal, but 1500 sure sounds like a lot.)

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      “Hey guys our sales are falling through the floor faster than Tesla, maybe we should rework our pricing and reconsider our policies towards buyers to move more volume and improve our imagine.”

      “ Uh… nah. How about instead, we put ads on the center console!”

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      I just got new neighbors out here in rural Kansas. They have two kias and a ram pickup for the man. If only they had a jeep it would be like a nearly complete set of the shittiest vehicles money can buy. Looking forward to exciting things here.

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        Kia is known for shitty locks, but that seems like a non-issue in rural Kansas? It’s not like they have ads in the dashboard.

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          Kia pivoted to EVs fast and early because they can’t make a ICE power plant that doesn’t catch on fire.

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    17 days ago

    “Well, you bought a Dodge Ram, so we know you’re gullible as hell. Now to let the advertisers have their way with you.”

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    Okay, cool. Hey, I’m now taking bets on how long until someone uses the ads to inject malware into a car or truck …

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    Eventually someone is going to get the idea that hospitals should start installing chips and screens into the skin of newborns and it either displays ads or it only cost $150k to have it removed. Thanks for having your baby at our hospital. The ads help pay for our CEO’s 4th mansion.

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    Why do they keep trying to sell us things to improve “my lifestyle.”

    My lifestyle is pretty much work, then coming home to do errands, maybe video games. I don’t need tacky truck nuts or whatever they’re selling.

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          Stellantis is leaving ram Chrysler dodge gona be on their own soon. They tarnished the brand to much to make it salvagble/profitable.

          Back when covid drove the prices up. They didn’t have a logistics problem like the other manufacturers because they didn’t upgrade their lineup. They just re sold outdated models for way too much money. Hence, the ram classic. But now all the leases and financing terms are ending, and you have a customer base that won’t get shit all for trade in to upgrade to a new model/ used market. So over about a 3-4 year span of worth of customers aren’t in much of a possition to buy a new veichle.

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      I’ve got a 2010s car and drive a rental in 2023. Really liked the new safety features but fuck all this scummy bullshit.

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    This is why I’m not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I’m not buying any new car with “smart” / “built-in” junk.

    I don’t know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that’s why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

    Now ads? Ffs…

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      My Honda civic 2012’s head unit firmware isn’t that bad.

      It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.

      Could be a lot worse.

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        “Front left tyre is fucked.” “Your fucking trunk is open.”

        Now that I would not mind having shown when starting the car.

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          Actually the bastard won’t tell you what specific tire. Just that one of them has low air pressure.

          Kind of a dick move since there’s no way the computer can’t tell which tire it is when they’re four separate sensors.

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            Mine will tell me the measured pressures of all tires. But only if at least one is low. I haven’t found a way to get it to just tell me the pressure in any tire if it’s not throwing an error at me.

            Dear Mazda, you have a full user interface in your vehicle. Why can’t you let me see the tire pressure from just a menu option?

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    And not even a fucking “don’t show again” option. Either “call” or “remind me later”. So there is no escape. Either take the ad in the ass or it’ll show up again. Fuck that

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      The Ram 1500 is the official car of “more than one, but not so many they take your license away” – both DUIs and beers before going to work.

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    I’m going to start pointing to this when I explain to people why I want “dumb” machines.

    I don’t want AI to “summarize” my google search, I don’t want ads distracting drivers, I don’t want a washing machine that needs updates, I don’t want my TV to look at me, I want a submissive little machine that does task X.

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      Ngl bro but I’ve found some good uses for AI. My kids school gave me 2 bullshit pdfs with duplicate information for their school supplies. I uploaded them to chatgbt and asked it to simplify it by combining duplicates and putting it in bullet format that was easily copy pastable. Did it in 30 seconds with minor tweaking and made my back to school shopping so much easier.

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        and what the fuck does that have to do with predatory companies cramming unneeded avenues of fucking predation into EVERYTHING?!

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        AI is not universally bad. There are some things it does well. The problem is that there are a lot more things it does badly, often in harmful ways, and most people using it have no idea how to tell the difference.

        You seem to be using it the right way, with caution and awareness.

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      Here’s an AI summary of your distain for AI:

      I’ll begin saying this when people ask why I want “dumb” machines.

      AI summaries lack quality, ads distract drivers, you want a washing machine without ads, you don’t want your TV to watch you, you want machines to be submissive.

      How did I do?

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    When did ads become the one commodity to rule them all. They are used more like a threat rather than information. You have to pay to see them or pay to make them go away. Doesn’t make sense. Have adverts replaced gold as the dollar standard? Weird. I guess they are good for money laundering due to the subjective nature of costs for “production”, “design” and “talent”.