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BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display (consumerrights.wiki)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh great. Most BMW drivers are already distracted and incompetent enough. This bullshit will just make them an even bigger hazard.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

They got rid of the turn signals completely to make this work

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just replace the ads with instructions on proper turn signal usage.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lane departure warning system should make the car unable to change lane without signal. This way and combine with the stupid steer-by-wire system, signal is mandatory.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds like a great way to guarantee every crash becomes a 100+ car pileup...

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With tech like that, surely they would also have other ADAS build in to make sure that wouldn't happen.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

I'd hope it's tech that works 100% of the time, too (lol).

I had a rental with lane assist once, and that shit nearly killed me when a dude drifted into my lane and my car decided I needed to stay in the same lane and not move over to avoid them. Thankfully cranking the wheel way harder than I should be at highway speeds overrode the lane assist.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was behind one driving at a snail's pace yesterday. When I overtook him it turned out he was scrolling on his phone.