Ford Patents A Way To Bring Ads Inside Your Car

The system can listen to conversations and play ads when there's a
moment of silence. Or play a video when you're close to the shops.


A new Ford patent describes a system that would play personalized
ads inside cars.

The advertisements would be either video or audio, depending on
the location, speed and whether or not people are talking inside the
car.


https://insideevs.com/news/732452/ford-patent-in-car-ads/

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

Ford Patents A Way To Bring Ads Inside Your Car

The system can listen to conversations and play ads when there's a
moment of silence. Or play a video when you're close to the shops.

A new Ford patent describes a system that would play personalized
ads inside cars.

The advertisements would be either video or audio, depending on
the location, speed and whether or not people are talking inside the
car.

https://insideevs.com/news/732452/ford-patent-in-car-ads/

Ahh... wonderful! A way to make travel by car even worse! You have to
wonder what goes on in the mind of the person who invented this? Is it a
man who thought our problem today is that we have too little ads?

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On 2024-09-06, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Ford Patents A Way To Bring Ads Inside Your Car

The system can listen to conversations and play ads when there's a
moment of silence. Or play a video when you're close to the shops.

The tech world has lost its mind.

As to 'why would anyone buy that' the answer is the same as what they
did with "smart TVs." They stop making the other kind, and you get
stuck with it.

I'm holding onto a TV I bought in 2016 because it's missing all that
smart stuff, it just shows you whatever came in on the HDMI cable,
nothing else.

The tech world needs to go back to solving actual problems rather than
figuring out how to show ads on every conceivable surface. Hey silicon
valley, FUCK YOU!

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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:45:14 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

As to 'why would anyone buy that' the answer is the same as what they
did with "smart TVs." They stop making the other kind, and you get
stuck with it.

Sidebar - If SmartTVs are dependent upon a cable system, I believe in
time, current cable operators will drop the cable channels, and
customers will have to use Internet.
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Tidbit

Frequency of watching cable television in the United States in 2022,
by generation

A survey conducted in November 2022 found that younger generations in
the United States were less likely to watch cable television on a
daily basis than older generations. In fact, 40 percent of baby
boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, used cable TV daily, while only a
quarter of surveyed millenials, born between 1981 and 1996, and 17
percent from Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, stated to do
so. All in all, the share of respondents, who stated to not have
watched cable TV at all in the month prior to the survey, was at least
50 percent within all generations. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1359075/use-cable-tv-frequency-united-states-generation/

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