• Greg Clarke
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    5414 days ago

    Whoever filled the patent obviously didn’t consider the optics of this. I’m in the market for a new car and was considering a Ford. This will factor into my decision.

  • wander1236
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    2514 days ago

    Not to defend the mega corporation, but companies file patents for ridiculous things all the time that never end up actually being made or used.

    • Eager Eagle
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      Exactly. A few months ago the headline was a patent of Roku hijacking HDMI to show ads.

      I’ll save my energy to be pissed off when this garbage actually makes it to market.

  • @tabular
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    2414 days ago

    If it’s MY car why would adverts be in it? What’s next, adverts in my shed?

    • @Etterra
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      614 days ago

      They would beam them into your brain if they could.

    • Christian
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      213 days ago

      If it’s MY car why would adverts be in it?

      Because you’re too poor to afford the monthly payment on the ad-free model.

  • Daemon Silverstein
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    2114 days ago

    “The system can listen to conversations”.

    What a timely coincidence! Patent got published basically at the same time Meta’s, Google’s and Microsoft’s “Active Listening” got public as well. 🤔

  • @gi1242
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    1414 days ago

    if there’s a really good way to bring ads inside your car, I’m happy someone patented it. it means fewer people will use it

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    1114 days ago

    Oh good, I wouldn’t want to escape the barrage of ads, ever.

  • @Thatuserguy
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    1014 days ago

    Please drink verification Coors Light to continue

  • qprimed
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    914 days ago

    as is traditional, one of our corporate innovators seeks to protect citizens (never simply consumers, no, no!) with a defensive patent - sure to now be locked away in a safe until natural corporate patent expiration 1000 years hence.

    now and forevermore we shalll sing in praise of this beneficent corporate citizen and their efficacious lawyerly thrust deep into the heart of our once inevitable (but now vanquished) future boring dystopia of ads beamed directly into our brains 24/7.

  • @[email protected]
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    914 days ago

    Imagine trying to use your finger to click the tiny x of the ad that covered your windshield while you’re on the highway

    • @[email protected]
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      413 days ago

      They would never do that, that would be dangerous. But at red lights, or when you first start the motor, or at the gas station? Oh you betcha betcha betcha

  • @CptEnder
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    13 days ago

    Maybe, just maybe Ford is doing all these horrid patents so they can just hold on to them so no one can make them… Would actually be pretty brilliant . That being said wayze already has ads.

  • @Dkarma
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    614 days ago

    Opening your door brought to you by Walmart.

  • bitwolf
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    514 days ago

    OK fine but you better let me watch YouTube on my infotainment then since it’s just as distracting