Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.
We need to tally up all the accidents and pedestrian hit-and-runs that occur involving cars with this “feature.” It would likely be enough of an increase you could reasonably make a class action lawsuit. I have no sympathy whatsoever for a car manufacturer that can’t get it through their heads that distracted driving is a major cause of accidents, and could easily happen by their own features.
Look up “depraved-heart murder.”
It’s when someone knowingly does something that’s so obviously likely to cause death or injury that that indifference to life can essentially be treated as intent, and if someone does as a result it isn’t manslaughter or wrongful death, but murder.
Classic examples would be arson or knowingly selling tainted medicine.
That’s the grim truth, isn’t it
I saw this on Lenny about Jeeps. I asked someone sitting in a new Jeep if she got ads when she came to a stop and she said no. So now I wonder if there is something about the trim level or something. She said it was 1 year old. Maybe this just started.
They could also just be A/B testing shit to see how much backlash they get.
Exactly why I wont buy any vehicle with any sort of network connection outside of the CANbus.
Did you know John Deere tractors have a dedicated piracy scene? Because the tractors require authorized technicians to service them and doesn’t allow farmers to service them themselves, spoofed firmware has appeared and is fairly frequently used to bypass this.
My point is, if you can jailbreak a tractor you can jailbreak a car. Just a matter of time.
Encrypted ECM? Build a new foss one and sell them online, you’ll make bank.
Hell yes I do.
When that old antipiracy ad was like “you wouldn’t download a car,” turns out they were vastly overestimating your average American tractor owner or car driver’s respect for the corporate arcology.
Arcology: architectural ecology, a city intended to be contained in a single structure.
Thanks boss, I used the word and I’m like “I’m maybe 10% sure this is a word and most that confidence is coming from SimCity 2000” but then I went full send, I might not be the best journalist.
You know, I meant the corporate hierarchy. They’re increasingly living in Spacex company towns or other arcologies and such. The gated communities, whatever the corpo version of the Ivory Tower is. In a word, that one building from SimCity 2000.
That’s one way to increase running red lights.
Like that sounds like it should be banned by the ntsb or dot… oh wait they don’t exist anymore, or soon to be cut.
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What’s sad is a significant amount of people have simply been conditioned to accept that level of noise in their lives.
If things are quieter and they aren’t getting products shoved in their faces 24/7, they become visibly uncomfortable.
Lol seriously! When we had our first kid and moved to a new place we didn’t unpack the TV at all and that made things inside the house quiet. Like weird quiet.
The quiet means you have to deal with your own thoughts and theyre certainly not going to do that!
I really fucking dislike that you used Hyundai when they are like the one company that still does cool fucking shit at prices normal people can afford.
They are also one of the worst ones at collecting your data
source?
I recall seeing a visual of it too. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Of these literally only the Tesla one is an issue and a major one, sharing video clips.
Fucking voice recognition, lmao.
- Who uses that?
- The people who use that are glad that they use that data to improve it, because they want that working, that’s just how the world works have to break it to you kiddo
Ok, kiddo, enjoy not having privacy. You’re going to love having ads at stop lights, kiddo.
Do their newer cars still burn oil like crazy because thats not so great
Is a forced subscription to use basic features included in this supposed “cool fucking shit”?
Because they do that, now I won’t tell you how to live but I would not categorize selling basic features back to me as “cool fucking shit”
yeah, I don’t get why Hyundai doesn’t run it’s servers for free thus avoiding having to have the customer be charged for it.
also they should be developing the app for free, by just not paying developers, what a genius idea you have, let me contact Hyundai Corporate right away.
You’re right they shouldn’t charge for it. That’s why you buy a car, it’s not like they don’t make money selling you a car.
It’s an optional feature, you dont have to pay for it, you can remote start from your keyfob if you want…
Until you can’t
Yes, that’s when I wouldn’t buy the car, that’s how things work.
Remote start doesn’t need a server, Unlocking your doors doesn’t need a server and temp controls don’t need a server. These are things that are controlled and operated locally, But Hyundai sure as fuck thinks they do.
You can do them all for free from yoir keyfob, bluelink is specifically for when you want to do it from dar away for some reason and that’s a luxury service that you can pay for if you want…
Damn people are dumb about this
This offends me to the core. Stellantis has made my shit list, and I will never purchase any product they are involved in. EVER !
Their cars are trash anyways so you’re better off.
Fuck NO
I’d quit my job and start running the campaign for anyone who’s willing to run on outlawing this shit. I’d work 75 hour weeks handing out fliers about distracted driving.
I would take that car back immediately. Fuck that.
Yet another car I’ll never buy.
Starting price is now $58,000.
They ditched selling the accessible models for the luxury market and they do the most cheap and trashy thing possible.
It’s incredible how stupid millionaire CEOs can be.
It does appear… pretty bootleg.
Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!
What? That’s about double the price of a Camry which is probably a better car all around
It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.
Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.
We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.
Did we?
Welp. Never buying a new Dodge vehicle or from a Dodge lot.
0 tolerance for this.
BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, Toyota, Jeep, Dodge have all tried to add subscriptions to their vehicles basic functions or otherwise monetize owned property.
Hit their mommies and daddies, while Im at it.
BMW Group: BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce
Mercedes-Benz Group: Mercedes-Benz, Smart
Tesla, Inc.: Tesla
Toyota Motor Corporation: Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu, Hino
Stellantis (Owner of Jeep & Dodge): Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall.
I never thought I would say this, but thank god there are a bunch of car hobbiest in my area.
If this type of invasive shit becomes mainstream, I at least know that the auto community around me will be able to fix anything that gets put into my travel device.
