Too fucking bad. This is the future we deserve.

I always said it was a documentary.

Someone in 2050 invented time travel and brought me a picture of myself on my daily commute.

I hope you punched him in his slimey Stanford grad face.

Our future:

Yes! That’s exactly what I was thinking. Definitely a show I can’t handle more than one episode of in a day.

Faraday future strikes me as basically skynet.

If they are going to play adds in my car, then they are going to be paying for my car as well. Sounds like a fair trade off to me. Otherwise if I paid for it, GTFO with your adds.

They can be muted

You don’t have to worry about that. In the future the car will know your net worth. It will compare that to the value of the moose (very rare and expensive in the future) and make the decision whether to kill you and save the moose.

A Story of the Days to Come by H. G. Wells has ads so ubiquitous that you can’t even walk behind a bald guy without seeing a commercial projected on his pate.

I forsee a future where I along with most of the driving population say FUCK personal transportation and ride the autonomous bus everywhere if they’re pulling this monkey shit already.

My ability to turn off the internet (i.e. my phone/computer) is the only thing that keeps me sane. I can’t imagine being bombarded by the internet in an enclosed space with no way of escape.

The future is really going to suck for people who hate driving so much and hate maintaining a gasoline powered automobile even more.

Imagine you want to take emergency control of the vehicle to smash the brakes or something to keep from hitting a moose, but you touch the screen to enable manual control and a Brembo ad plays instead. The five second wait for the “Skip ad” button to show up could lead to ironic and grisly results.

This reminds me of some of the gas pumps that have sprung up in my area. They have very loud advertisements that cannot be muted. So far I have been able to avoid those stations in favor of ones that do not provide an aural assault but I’m afraid that eventually all of them will go to this sort of additional revenue…

Further proof, along with this quote from the article : But, from a marketer’s point of view, the good news is that all those self-driving vehicles — including trucks — will essentially become moving living rooms that autonomous cars will be less cars and more rolling appliances. They’re just going to be conveyance…

I met with a Faraday Future guy at one point who introduced me to this idea. Said something to the effect of: “Imaging getting in the car and you’re surrounded by screens, it would feel like riding through the internet!”

That would be honestly kind of ridiculous if it was a personal vehicle. Now, if it was a public utility, similar to subways, I could see it, or even a lease. But if someone wants to advertise to me in a car I own? Forget about it. That’s insanity.

This makes me think of that black mirror episode where the people had to peddle stationary bikes to make power. They had to watch the ads in the morning, or pay to skip it. Maybe your car will lock you in until you’re certain you want Colgate as your new toothpaste brand