Technology

Welp, my days of not buying Dodge cars seem to be coming to a middle.

If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.

Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn't enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?

I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.

We need root on our car computers.

I thought GM foregoing CarPlay in favor of their own proprietary UI was a great way to kill sales, this is absolutely genius. Way to ensure I would never purchase your products!

It seems like displaying an ad at a stop light would be a safety issue since it makes it so you can onky look at the screen while moving.

You'd may as well run the red light

Blows my mind that this kind of stuff isn’t a safety issue… I guess as long as it’s “touch-free” it’s not considered distracted driving lol

It's so insane how seemingly every company wants to fuck over all their customers these days. Their obsession with fucking infinite growth.

Took my Dodge vehicle in for service. They wanted my email address "so they can get in touch with me if I don't answer the phone." I gave it to them.

It took less than half a day for the first spam mail to hit my inbox.

“Glitch”

More like

“Let’s see how people react”

I am so happy that my car doesn’t update itself automatically

Forget about just the web. Modern tech is about to become unusable due to ads.

I mean like I need another reason to NOT buy a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram

"Please subscribe to continue operating your vehicle"

Two weeks ago it was Jeep. Now it's Dodge. This is how it creeps. Are both those companies owned by Crystler?

I'm surprised Dodge is trying this considering the thousands of memes of BMW implementing pay to use features on their vehicle ever since they added subscription heated seats.

If this ever happens to any car I buy, it'd be going right back to the dealer.

Next thing you know they'll find a way to advertise in our dreams

You know, I always expected Tesla to be the first to do this kind of shit, but never underestimate Stellantis's commitment to be at the bottom.

This is just asking to get rickroll’d.

If you just do a standing burnout at every light will it not pop up?

Whenever I upgrade my car, if it has this “feature “ I will immediately change out the system.

Been doing this with Jeeps already. They claimed it was a mistake.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/jeep-in-car-ads-popup-stellantis-software-revenue/

This is like shooting a hole in the bottom of the boat so the leaking water has somewhere to go out.

I get that this is the point of the article, but wow seeing an ad in your car makes it look cheap as fuck.

There’s a chance I might tolerate it on a rental, but not on something I own. Absolutely not.

They'll see the sales of the Charger tank and will conclude that people just don't want muscle cars, which is sad because in the next few years I was thinking about getting one.

Oh well, what can you do.