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What happens when all car manufacturers are displaying ads?

It's spreading...I just read something or maybe I saw it reported on YouTube...about Jeep doing this very same type thing....advertising something, I forgot exactly what it was...but was very similar to this.

For some things you don't even need ChatGPT. If you're having the flu, it would be really nice if you just call the doctor to get the prescription instead of having to pay a visit where the doctors says "Yeah here is the prescription, bye and come back if it doesn't get better". Sometimes you really don't need a long diagnosis.

What meds for the flu?

I mean, there is Tamiflu (sp?)...but that's really only effective if you catch it at the beginning.....but the best diagnosis is generally, treat the symptoms, plenty of fluids, rest and let it run its course...

Flu is viral....so NO ANTI-BIOTICS....no matter how much the patient bitches and asks for them....

Thanks for the tip! What about affecting GPS (navigation)? Does that use a separate antenna? If so, that would mean the vehicle has two different antennas for two different satellite types.

It's a smallish SUV, by the way.

You clearly have not the slightest idea what the problem actually is. Well done, you are an idiot.

And you have clearly proven by several of your posts in this discussion that you are an ignorant fool who thinks that he can win arguments simply by insulting his opponent. Twit!

... except instead of shoes becoming the only profitable product to manufacture, it's chatbots. Nobody knows why, but when it's all over, the only survivors will be those who evolved into computer-illiterate deaf-mutes.

Not just driving. The argument is:  excepting medications, all possible human  value has already been created for all useful human  products. Thus, only ornaments (like smartphones ) or emo-panders ( like ads )  are worth trying to newly generate. No surprise ...  if you got Sirius ( ornament ) you get the pander (ads).

My gorgeous 2003 Ford Focus hatchback never played an ad, over its AM-FM Magnavox;  but naturally never rolled down its own windows. As for a 5-speed manual tranny F_O_R_D product that would be extravagant.

(might as well just have a USB stick with the same stuff on repeat)

That's what I do for in-car music. Of course, the flash drive has, at the moment, 252 different pieces of music on it, so it doesn't exactly repeat very often.

MS playbook [of] shoving ads everywhere...

Ads on a desktop are one thing, but ads that block one's navigation map while driving are another. Thus, Sirius found a way to be even more evil than MS. Quite a feat.

It started 3 years ago. I contacted Sirius two years in a row. The first time they walked me through the menus to turn it off, and it worked. The second year they said it couldn't be turned off and that I'd have to wait for the promotional period to end (see below), so I filed a formal safety notice at nhtsa.gov, but never received feedback.

The alert pop-ups keep blocking part of the navigation map until I press the damned Dismiss button while driving in order to see the full map. Repeatedly pushing the Dismiss button distracts from driving, and so is a safety hazard.

I was told that every November Sirius gave out a few weeks of free service to help promote the service. But that caused the useless and repetitious wind alerts. I live in a naturally windy place such that wind alerts are superfluous; it would be comparable a North Pole freeze alert.

It happened again this year, but I was fortunately able to switch it off via settings menus. I don't know why deactivation is different per year. I suspect they do it to get people to poke around in the menus and see the different genres of music & talk channels they have, hoping to entice sales. It's probably stealth advertising disguised as a defect, or a defect they leave in place that happened to improve sales, so is ignored.

F$CK YOU SIRIUS!

I see the point now, it "took" (pretty much past tense) about 30 years.

I do remember when it came out, and when a work friend got one in the early 2000s. It seemed so freaky. Everybody was like, 'Toyota loses money on every one!' 'You're going to be crying when the battery wears out!' 'It'll break down twice as much as a normal car because it has 2 drivetrains!'

Agreed; but it is possible to make a Metro-sized car that is safe by modern standards and still gets 40+mpg. The Smart ForTwo and the Scion IQ are two examples.

Governments that believe they SHOULD make laws opposed by the citizenry is the reason governments and leaders  get shot in the head / guillotined. There's a reason for the 2nd Amendment to the USA Constitution.

I do not want a data-center/power-plant on MY rural dirt. I want bushy ravines supporting  shootable roughed-grouse, well-tending fields of corn supporting pheasants and brookly bubbling  streams of cut-throat trout and steel-heads. Fuck the *.ai people and  code they rode in on.

Since I started DIY computer builds about Y2K I have used ONLY Crucial ram. Bought straight from the company, and in the early years Crucial would automatically connect  buyer to an engineer for advice. Thru 7 systems never in 25 years had a ram issue. Buying Crucial ram was the equivalent of buying enterprise-grade hard-drives or Xeon CPUs. Crucials decision to stop retail sales.  is a sad day for computer hobbyists. Mebby Crucial does not realize the value of a secure,  loyal long-term customer base.