I’m genuinely surprised to see how Ford (F) continues to make bad decisions. This is NOT gonna fly with anyone I’ve ever interacted with in my life.
Not only Ads doesn’t belong in a car but also eavesdropping for target advertisement? Rest assured no one is gonna go near a 5 mile radius of the Ford dealers. They already are making shitty cars now to top it off this?
The moment they announce this, I’ll port half my portfolio to PUTs on F.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-in-vehicle-advertising-patent/
Ford patents In-car ads powered by eavesdropping.
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I would NEVER buy a ford with this. Good luck to Ford.
I love end stage capitalism 😍
Well, it’s just a patent, not intent to have it in their cars. If any other manufacturer wants to have this in their cars, Ford gets the royalties.
Smart move to have as many parents as you can, IMO.
I mean I was dropping Ford with the decision to report your speed to authorities, time to short Ford?
If you put listening devices of any kind in a car as standard you can kiss goodbye to any government fleet contract.
“Finally, it could listen to your conversations and determine if it’s better to serve you a visual ad while you’re talking, or an audio ad when there’s a lull in the conversation.” I can’t imagine ads just coming on while quietly driving down the road. The speakers would end up out of the car if I had to put up with this.
Don’t our phones already do this?
Only people over 40 will care. Everyone else will just do what an influencer says.
Whoa.. customized like your own personal assistant bruh! Order shit while driving right off Amazon and Taco Bell!
all the cars and bikes ive ever owned and will ever own were made before 2007 because of nonsense like this
Reminds me of the BMW subscription heated seats. Who comes up with this shit?
This is fine… if the cars are free and they drive themselves.
Yet another reason why I’ll never buy a four lettered F word again!
On the one hand, no one wants this.
On the other hand, Ford doing this mean everyone else can’t which is a win for those of us who don’t buy Ford.
So calls on TSLA?
Oof I should prob exit my ford position
Boomers about to have a heart attack
Ads? In a car I’m spending tens of thousands of dollars on? No thanks
Backing out of EVs and now this? Very sad about the business decisions..
I would love to see you buy puts on a company as small as Ford.
FoMoCo is already stamped on every part that I’ve had to replace on my Volvo, why would I want ads on top of an already subpar vehicle? Fucker Only Runs Downhill and all that, and apparently so will their stock prices
Gonna be the same scenario like with Netflix not allowing different households to use their logins and every redditor said that they “were deleting their subscription” and this sub started to buy puts.
Whole time, subs just went up. Ford f-150 sells like hotcakes and most of the people who care about this stuff like on this sub are not the target demographic for their cars. More ad spend = higher revenue.
Ford is just sayimg the quiet part out loud, 100% this will be a mandatory non-voluntary feature on all cars from all brands unless you pay for the billed monthly premium service to avoid 1/2 the ads.
If you don’t consent to this then they’ll make safety features a monthly subscription with hard coding to crash your car into a building at 100mph unless you pay.
Thank God Ford has this patent and not a car brand I actually want to buy
Honestly, just give me a ‘75 F-250 with a radio. Car companies are just doing more to justify eyewatering prices. I get it. It’s capitalism. But they’re just doing too much
Didn’t Ford or one of the other legacy domestic (U.S.) automakers just patent a system to snitch on your speeding?
F150 drivers are among the dumbest consumers on the planet. They won’t care.
Of course people will buy them. They’re cheap.
And they’ll either not mention the ads, or spin it in a positive “more interconnected experience”or something.
And of course, charge you for giving you ads.
So they want us to buy a car that serves ads and also narcs you out to police 😂 fucking clown company
And some executive got paid millions for this idea? WTF is wrong .
The obvious hate goes toward Ford. But don’t miss the elephant in the room — fuck cancerous advertisers and their insidious mindset. Fuck these surveillance ad tactics that hijack and erode our privacy. I hope Ford never sells another car after this — and I hope the parasite advertisers and asshole execs who developed this drown in their own shit.
I’m less and less surprised by the state of my country when I read Reddit.
Like the article says in the first paragraph…. Patenting something doesn’t mean they are releasing cars with it.
I feel stupid typing this.
If a car were legitimately cheaper, say $10k vs $40k, sure go ahead and play a startup ad like gas stations do now… but we all know it’s not going to change the price.
In the USA we could really use a “duck duck go” of the car manufacturing world. And one that focuses on low cost utilitarian cars. Maybe once AGI is a thing or the government becomes a functional entity, but I doubt it. 🤷 🤣