"CivoLee" (civolee)
11/17/2016 at 15:18 • Filed to: None
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"CivoLee" (civolee)
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Anyone who watches live television or chooses to actually support the online shows they watch (to the Entitled: Thinking about Ad Block? Go work at your job for free, because that’s basically what you’re telling your favorite YouTubers to do) has seen it: Automaker pitches their latest Lane Departure Warning/Automatic Braking/You Suck At Driving So Just Let The Car Do It For You feature set by showing someone or a group of people yodeling at the top of their lungs to the radio or paying more attention to the chicks/hunks on the sidewalk than the car they’re about to T-bone, then said features snap the driver to reality. Then they have a look like, “My God, if the car hadn’t braked for me/let me know I was drifting into the other lane......!” while the narrator tells the feature name then gives the company name/slogan.
Look, I’m no perfect driver. I used to text while driving until the day I looked up from my phone to find myself on the wrong side of the road going up a hill. There’s a blind curve on the way to my band’s practice space that I used to take at admittedly too high speed (just to show of my car’s handling to...well, myself really) until one day recently where I rounded the bend to bumpers and taillights. Those mistakes taught me not to do them again. Live and learn, like someone very special to me is fond of saying.
It’s not the features themselves I’m coming out against; it’s the legitimization by advertisers and indirectly, car companies themselves, of distracted driving. Wanna engage in a group singalong instead of focus on the road? It’s OK; our car will let you know if you’re drifting out of your lane. Feel grilling your daughter on her social life is more important than the car about to cut you off? Don’t worry; our car will stop for you.
Distracted driving causes hundreds of thousands of car accidents per year, many of them fatal. While everyone wants to point the finger at texters, all kinds of distractions can cause accidents. And what’s more, it seems carmakers are giving in more and more by focusing on active safety features instead of supporting efforts to improve driver training and crack down on bad driving violations.
It would be one thing if the drivers in these ads were depicted as morons that got what they had coming. But they don’t; they’re just normal people doing what’s all too quickly becoming a disturbingly normal thing: paying more attention to themselves, the other people in the vehicle, or their latest daydream than the road and the other drivers on it. And using that as a marketing tool is, frankly, pretty disturbing in and of itself.
OKcarburetor
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:22 |
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If they could quit glorifying riding motorcycles with out a helmet(or any safety gear whatsoever) that would be great too.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:26 |
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Adblock is a terrible application who now charge ad companies to be whitelisted, ublock origin is far better.
MonkeePuzzle
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:27 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 15:28 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 15:28 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 15:28 |
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MonkeePuzzle
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 15:29 |
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bob and john
> OKcarburetor
11/17/2016 at 15:29 |
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what they do that? link?
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MonkeePuzzle
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 15:29 |
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Takuro Spirit
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:29 |
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I too hate it. I’m sick of it. But then again that’s most of our population. Pandering to the weak minded is all it is. Sell more cars with safety crap people think they need just so they can text, drink, and play Pokemon Go even MORE behind the wheel.
I can’t wait for driverless cars. 90% of these morons out there NEED them. Let the 10% of us who can drive and GIVE A SHIT have our fun with our brown diesel manual wagons.
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OKcarburetor
> bob and john
11/17/2016 at 15:32 |
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While not ad execs technically, just watching any tv show or movie with a motorcycle featured, there is rarely a helmet on the actor.
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bob and john
> OKcarburetor
11/17/2016 at 15:33 |
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movies, yes. ads, I havent seen so much.
hmm. but yes, that is really not cool
Mercedes Streeter
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:35 |
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(to the Entitled: Thinking about Ad Block? Go work at your job for free, because that’s basically what you’re telling your favorite YouTubers to do)
Nah...I use uBlock Origin...and whenever I watch YouTube, it’s usually to watch some random not monetized car video or a music video...and massive record corporations surely don’t need my dollars. Now artists I support? Of course they’re whitelisted.
But I agree though, I extremely dislike those “Do you suck at being a responsible driver, well here’s a car feature that will encourage you to suck even more!” types of ads.
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OKcarburetor
> bob and john
11/17/2016 at 15:36 |
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I should have specified haha. I’m sure there are ads out there, but probably not for the motorcycle specifically.
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 15:49 |
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THANK YOU!!! I think of this every time I see those damn commercials. PAY FUCKING ATTENTION, YOU’RE DRIVING!
ugh.
interstate366, now In The Industry
> MonkeePuzzle
11/17/2016 at 16:00 |
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The guy trying to hammer lettuce into a blender is probably the weirdest one here.
uofime-2
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 16:30 |
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how would you recommend they advertise the features instead?
Urambo Tauro
> uofime-2
11/17/2016 at 16:48 |
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Honestly, I think we’d all be better off if those features were kept a secret so that people wouldn’t rely on them.
But that won’t happen, will it? It’s become a selling point that automakers are taking advantage of.
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Urambo Tauro
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 16:53 |
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Well said.
By lessening the consequences of bad driving, people have become increasingly complacent and aren’t putting enough effort into operating motor vehicles. Advertising that this is a normal, acceptable part of life is just going to make things worse. More people might survive those crashes, but they’ll be right back on the roads, having learned nothing.
Mondial goes to 11
> CivoLee
11/17/2016 at 17:00 |
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There’s a range of Kia? Hyundai? commercials that advertises lane detection and auto braking by saying humans only have a five second attention span. So we’ll save your ass because you can’t stop daydreaming after five seconds while operating a 3000 lb piece of machinery.
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uofime-2
> Urambo Tauro
11/17/2016 at 17:11 |
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Its hardly the first safety feature that has been done with. Companies need to make money, adding this equipment isn’t free and it represents a profit center. It is highly likely these systems will become required equipment in the not very distant future, thank the early adopters for paying for their development.
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Urambo Tauro
> uofime-2
11/17/2016 at 17:44 |
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Yeah, it’s too bad that business takes precedence over what’s really best for road safety.
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CivoLee
> uofime-2
11/17/2016 at 18:30 |
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Probably how I described it at the beginning of the last paragraph; show some guy messily shoving a burger in his mouth, a cartoonishly makeup-caked lady doing her eyebrows, etc...