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Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display (fuelarc.com)
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Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is why I'm not going to buy RAM / Dodge / Chrysler/ Jeep / anything Stellantis owns, and this is why I'm not buying any new car with "smart" / "built-in" junk.

I don't know of any car that has an actually good head unit. Its either garbage because its a giant touch screen, making it super difficult to navigate without looking (that's why all the controls in an airplane are different shapes and sizes), or its just a hub for you to run Android Auto / apples equivalent.

Now ads? Ffs...

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My Honda civic 2012's head unit firmware isn't that bad.

It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.

Could be a lot worse. Wouldn't touch a modern one with a ten foot pole lmao.

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"Front left tyre is fucked." "Your fucking trunk is open."

Now that I would not mind having shown when starting the car.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 20 hours ago

Actually the bastard won't tell you what specific tire. Just that one of them has low air pressure.

Kind of a dick move since there's no way the computer can't tell which tire it is when they're four separate sensors.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 19 hours ago

I've just been thoroughly unimpressed by all of the American car brands. Crap vehicles with lousy interiors the lot of them.