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withak posted:Countdown until the dealer sticker starts to include a bigger number in the small print for the ad-free version. never. there will not be an ad-free version.
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Aghama posted:Sounds like BS, how would Ford be making money on this? It would be simpler for them to just...sell add space on their dashboards. Watch this ad to activate heated/cooled seats for 30 minutes, or upgrade for 24.99/mo for unlimited use.
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BiggerBoat posted:https://hitechglitz.com/ford-patents-an-auto-sensor-to-scan-roadside-billboards-and-send-ads-straight-to-dashboards/ See now this is why I’m glad that the 3g service in my car got shut off and there’s no upgrade available.
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thegreatcodfish posted:Watch this ad to activate heated/cooled seats for 30 minutes, or upgrade for 24.99/mo for unlimited use. Autopilot has detected a Wendy's add. Rerouting to the closest Wendy's. To disable ad enabled rerouting, please pay $50/mo.
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Feb 20, 2022 16:48
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Looks like Meta has pushed Nick Clegg forward to handle "Global Affairs". You won't have Zuck to kick around anymore!
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Shrecknet posted:never. there will not be an ad-free version. Ad-free version will only stop the unskippable ads at startup and shutdown. Interstitials will still play when you drive past a relevant billboard.
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Aghama posted:Sounds like BS, how would Ford be making money on this? It would be simpler for them to just...sell add space on their dashboards. By selling premium adspace to company’s. Free ads might just be “eat at dicks, 5mi” while premiums could have a video, interactive content, etc I assume something similar happens in Waze where anything can get added but certain places have their own icons like Dunkin, Mobil, etc
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withak posted:Countdown until the dealer sticker starts to include a bigger number in the small print for the ad-free version. Surely this will be a monthly subscription. Then you still get ad pop-ups but they're just Ford's own.
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Ford: "Pay us and we'll pop up the ad inside the car too"
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Nenonen posted:you still get ad pop-ups but they're just Ford's own. Constant upselling to activate features already built into your vehicle, and telling you to trade in on this year's model!!! That you already bought.
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The ads will mostly be for places you just came from.
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withak posted:The ads will mostly be for places you just came from. Please come back to Cleveland! Please! Pleeeease!
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:By selling premium adspace to company’s. Free ads might just be “eat at dicks, 5mi” while premiums could have a video, interactive content, etc don't have a problem with that, I love dick's
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:By selling premium adspace to company’s. Free ads might just be “eat at dicks, 5mi” while premiums could have a video, interactive content, etc I'm not sure if Waze does it as well because I haven't used it in a while, but Google Maps will use certain restaurants and poo poo as navigational aids, which I assume someone is paying for. (One route I take three or four times a year always tells me to take a right after the Subway™.)
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https://twitter.com/ajlatrace/status/1495124630868213764?s=20&t=FkLv2V5NqU2HtvlL0WiaEQ Has an optical blind zone in front of the truck for like 30 feet.
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AJ latrace just proving the truck’s point it’s for people who do PUA lean analysis 
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/ajlatrace/status/1495124630868213764?s=20&t=FkLv2V5NqU2HtvlL0WiaEQ Modern cars are literally child mulchers, shame that nobody with any power over automobile standards gives a poo poo lol. I guess just keep slapping sensors on this trash that moron drivers will just continue to ignore because homicide is legal if it's done with a vehicle EVs are the next generation of this btw, twice as heavy and pitched on how fast they accelerate and their pedestrian pulping """AI""", EVs are going to create more child corpses than even internal combustion will
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Epic High Five posted:
This feels like weird “think of the children” propaganda an oil company would put out.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:This feels like weird “think of the children” propaganda an oil company would put out. Possibly but I doubt it considering how the entire ICE industry is also all about 9 foot tall trucks and SUVs with hoods that obstruct 20 feet of visibility. Neither industry is setting out to turn children into a red mist, they just tolerate it because American car culture itself tolerates it to whatever degree it presents itself because we as a society do not actually value the preservation of human life Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Feb 21, 2022 |
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The anti-electric car nonsense is just bullshit. EVs are only moderately heavier than their fossil fuel equivalents, by maybe 250-750lbs, and that amount is dwarfed by the 1,500-2,000 lbs difference between a car and a truck. Certainly it would be good to implement vehicle weight taxation to encourage lighter designs, but the idea that "super heavy EVs are going to kill more people than ICEs" is a classic Republican talking point.
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I don't think EVs are especially likely to kill people compared to traditional cars, I think they're both extremely likely to do so for broadly similar reasons. It's not like the fundamental issues are made less omnipresent if something is made almost completely silent and "only" 500kg heavier while maintaining a 30 foot blind spot in front of the hood and adding an incredible ability to accelerate as we've seen from this industry that simply does not build sedans in anything but joke numbers anymore. Pedestrian and cyclist deaths have been on the rise in a big way since 2019 right alongside the massive increase in size and weight of autos, and this will continue because vehicular homicide is completely normalized both legally and socially in this country
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/ajlatrace/status/1495124630868213764?s=20&t=FkLv2V5NqU2HtvlL0WiaEQ Ya, I use my father in law's 3/4th ton to tow our camper. Visibility is pretty bad. I imagine this full ton truck is even worse.
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Epic High Five posted:
The massive increase in car weight since 2019? What are you talking about?
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Epic High Five posted:Pedestrian and cyclist deaths have been on the rise in a big way since 2019 right alongside the massive increase in size and weight of autos, and this will continue because vehicular homicide is completely normalized both legally and socially in this country Seat belt use went down and drunk driving went up starting in 2019, and from what I recall reading, the disparity for how accidents impact minorities and low-income areas in the US widened. So it's not all people driving hot new electric cars. I don't think other countries are seeing the same traffic fatality increases, either.
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One of the biggest issues with new trucks isn't their weight so much as their raised hoods and fenders, which have been styled to be taller and more aggressive-looking due to a lack of safety regulation. Visibility isn't really the issue either (drivers are already untrained and unaware) but rather that such styles drag victims under the vehicle rather than bouncing them up and over.
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Yeah the "rising since 2019" is potentially all pandemic related, but which specific aspect of the pandemic and our related responses to it are unclear. Fewer cars on the road so the bad drivers are now able to drive at 120 mph rather than simply 90 mph? People generally mad because pandemic, because pandemic restrictions, because something something TRUMP BRANDON GOTTA GO FAST TRUCK NUTS? Some people decided they are going to commit suicide via driving? "If God wants me alive they'll get me home while I'm drunk and/or high and driving at 60 in this residential area otherwise nothing matters lmao"
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/ajlatrace/status/1495124630868213764?s=20&t=FkLv2V5NqU2HtvlL0WiaEQ Trucks are so loving stupid nowadays. I never had high opinions on trucks as a useful vehicle to begin with except in edge cases but hell they're so ugly now. Gotta go back ot the 80s to find a decent looking model. Gimme a diesel Datsun, Mazda or Toyota from the 80s over any of these abortions.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Trucks are so loving stupid nowadays. I never had high opinions on trucks as a useful vehicle to begin with except in edge cases but hell they're so ugly now. i work in conditions that require pickups, and they're super useful working vehicles, but the trend towards taller and heavier tends to actively make them worse at their job. i don't really give a poo poo about my vehicle aesthetics, but what's the loving point if you can't easily reach into the bed and haul poo poo out?
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This video was in the comments - you can hide an entire car in front of those stupid pickups already. https://twitter.com/bontrager_keith/status/1495443890253357059
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i work in conditions that require pickups, and they're super useful working vehicles, but the trend towards taller and heavier tends to actively make them worse at their job. i don't really give a poo poo about my vehicle aesthetics, but what's the loving point if you can't easily reach into the bed and haul poo poo out? I find a van is the superior vehicle in most cases, or a trailer.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I find a van is the superior vehicle in most cases, or a trailer. ¿Por que no los todos?  I present you the long van, or vaan.
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I never could tell when to use vain or vaan.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:This video was in the comments - you can hide an entire car in front of those stupid pickups already. Yeah this needs to be ended because needed to use a drat camera to not slam into another car is goddamn insane. There's absolutely no reason for that, and it's not like the engine is bigger to make any sense.
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Seriously, can we go back to 4-5+ dollar a gallon of gas so Americans will stop buying these stupid loving monster trucks please?
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His Divine Shadow posted:Trucks are so loving stupid nowadays. I never had high opinions on trucks as a useful vehicle to begin with except in edge cases but hell they're so ugly now. Yeah me and the spouse were driving this weekend and we both commented on how huge trucks are and bemoaning the loss of small trucks like our Isuzu, which was about the size of a medium sedan.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:This video was in the comments - you can hide an entire car in front of those stupid pickups already. Imagine one of these loving things in a traffic jam
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karthun posted:Ya, I use my father in law's 3/4th ton to tow our camper. Visibility is pretty bad. I imagine this full ton truck is even worse. The Yukon is an SUV based on the 1/2 ton chassis. Even the light-duty trucks are that huge now.
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Yeah trucks are so stupid these days a big selling point is what kind of integrated ladder or fold out step system the tailgate has.
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Woolie Wool posted:The Yukon is an SUV based on the 1/2 ton chassis. Even the light-duty trucks are that huge now. That's not a Yukon. It's a sierra 3500
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