I hope they don’t act surprised when cheap Chinese cars without all that crap devour their market share.
Cheap chinese car, yes, without all the crap, you wish. They are all capitalist and learn from each other. Remember the door handle shit? It’s very much everywhere in chinese car to the point their government have to regulate the shit out of it. Chinese car maker want to export their car so bad because they can exploit without limit.
to the point their government have to regulate the shit out of it
Sounds like the system works. A problem was caused by capitalist firms doing stupid capitalist bullshit, and so the government stepped in to regulate them. What a country! Imagine if our governments would step in to regulate stupid firms doing stupid shit.
What a country!
Yeah if we pretend all the other issue with CCP didn’t exists, it’s a functional government.
Broken censorious genocidal clocks… or something like that.
But they said if we pay, we are not the product…
Was the BMW free? It must have been.
Wow, maybe bring it back to the dealership and tell them the car is broken, and insist on them fixing it or ask for a full refund.
i’m sure when you buy a new car you somewhere sign to this t&c’s… which is why i’m not buying a new car (well, one of the reasons anyway ;))
When my car dies, I’m just going to build a go cart. Fuck this shit.
Oh great. Most BMW drivers are already distracted and incompetent enough. This bullshit will just make them an even bigger hazard.
They got rid of the turn signals completely to make this work
I was behind one driving at a snail’s pace yesterday. When I overtook him it turned out he was scrolling on his phone.
Just replace the ads with instructions on proper turn signal usage.
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.
with how some stereotypical bmw drivers are, ads will make it worst.
All those electric car owners missing out on the gas station pump ads can finally feel included.
Imagine paying the kind of prices that car manufactures demand, and then they shove ads in your face on your own property. I would drive it back to the dealership & demand a refund.
You can probably have an ad-free system for a monthly subscription.
Wankers.
Ad free*
That’s Bayerische Motoren Wankers AG to you.
It’s crazy that few days ago I learned what BMW stands for and now I see it everywhere.
I thought it was Bavarian Motor Works or something? Logo was a propeller? No? This is what I’ve always known it to be.
Correct. It’s Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.
The German
Werkhas several meanings:- The process of work/the work itself needed to finish a specific task.
- A specific action. E.g. used to imply someone did $thing
- A specific thing that was produced by someone (e.g. a piece of art) or even someone’s lifeworks as a whole.
- A factory or industrial complex BUT ALSO depending on context the workers on said factory/complex.
Remember when they tried to make you rent the heated seats you already have?
Oh no! How will me and my soldiering iron cope?
Maybe they will offer a commercial-free subscription service.
Maybethey will offer a commercial-free subscription service.Ftfy
If have to watch ads it’s not a luxury car, it’s a Kia in a suit.
This is brilliant. Single sentence deathblow to BMW marketing.
I don’t watch ads in my Hyundai. That makes it worse than Kia/Hyundai.
The only cars I see ads in are borrowed from Europcar and are basic pieces of shit. So I guess BMW is around there now.
You have to watch the commercial before you can access the turn signals, right?
That would explain some things.
It’s kinda weird how this slogan got so much cultural traction. Years later and it’s still a meme. I guess because it’s irrelevant to the issue - IIRC it was about piracy - and also because it’s completely wrong. I would absolutely download a car if I could. So would pretty much everyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn’t_Steal_a_Car?wprov=sfti1
Copyright concerns
It was reported that the music in the announcement was itself used without permission.However, one source disputes this, saying the reporting is the result of conflation regarding a different anti-piracy ad that used stolen music composed in 2006.
The “ransom note” typeface used in the campaign was FF Confidential, designed by the Dutch typographer Just van Rossum. Reports arose in 2025 that the copy of the font used to design the commercial may not have been properly licensed. In April 2025, Sky News reported via extraction from old campaign PDFs that the actual font used was Xband-Rough, a widely-distributed pirated version of FF Confidential. Van Rossum was aware of the font Xband-Rough, but was unaware that the advert has used the pirated font and described its use as “hilarious”. According to a different investigation by journalists, the pirated font was only in a domestic campaign by the British Federation Against Copyright Theft, who had no involvement in the making of the original PSA. The Federation responded by saying that everyone involved in the creation of the announcement was no longer at the organization.
Imagine if Obama’s administration did this. The Republican would collectively and simultaneously cream themselves (ew).
I imagined it. Was pretty cool
Imagine this: when you start your car, you’re forced to watch a 30 second commercial. Your car already has eye tracking, which actually is a good safety feature, but we’ll be using this to make sure you’re watching the entire time.
If you stop watching, it will change to a 1 minute long commercial instead. If you still don’t watch the entire time, we might just start an even longer commercial.
Or better yet: your inattention is enough reason for us to turn off your car. Lawmakers can’t ban this now, because it’s a secondary safety feature: you don’t have enough attention to mindlessly watch a 30 second commercial, so you’re obviously not alert enough to operate a motor vehicle. Think of the kids.
Damn, I need to be like Sony and get a patent on this, just to stop anyone else from doing it.
Even Black Mirror wouldn’t go this far because it’s too banal, but Sony would
I’ve had Yanks tell me that my BYD is evil because I don’t really own it, that I have to pay a subscription, that it has ads
None of which is true
You know who’s pulling that sort of shit?
Other manufacturers.
NOT BYD
Same here. My car always works, I don’t need an account for it, all the features supported by the hardware are available for my use whenever I want. Here’s the kicker, WITHOUT an internet connection. We have 2 BYDs, a 2023 HAN and a 2023 TANG.
