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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*
Yup. Netflix will advertise its shows to you on the ad-free* tier, but say they’re not ads.
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.
Blessed info
- Kraftwerk if you want old German techno
- Overwerk for more modern tastes
Shprockets! Dance!
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, is the proper name, but sometimes people anglicized it to Bavarian Motor Works.
it’s called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion?wprov=sfla1
Thank you for this article.
Boss: “Why are you late today?”
Employee: “My BMW was showing ads every 10 minutes. It was difficult to drive.”
Boss: “Fair enough.”.
…
Boss: “Fair enough.”.
Seems optimistic to me! I would expect “it is your responsibility to be here on time and ready to work. Leave earlier if you must.”
There was some sadness wrapped in the neutral -leaning response. Sort of like accepting the excuse for being late due to the ads disrupting the control of the car as a common thing / the new norm.
I can imagine such a scenario. I can imagine being a manager of a team, and having someone come in and say that, and just feeling dread and sympathy. You’re right, and not all employment situations are the same, not all managers are psychopaths. For many, though, they are not working under such “managers.”
But I’m grateful to you for pushing back against the pervading darkness in our collective mind. Let it not, however, dampen our efforts to seek a remedy.
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.
If not for the snow and hills, I could get by on an electric bike for 95% of my needs.
But, I’m getting old, so not for much longer.
I hope they don’t act surprised when cheap Chinese cars without all that crap devour their market share.
Unfortunately that doesn’t happen, because EU put tariffs on Chinese EVs. And then they are complaing why EV adaption doesn’t happen as quickly as they would like, lol.
That only delays the problem, doesn’t fix it, sadly. Chinese firms understand capitalism better than the west imo, so once they have a large market share, they will likely pull off the same shit. Still, for now, they are probably the better option.
For me, personally, I am trying to keep my 300 thousand km car alive :)
Very good point and I think I have proof. You can already see them inserting ads in their low budget phones
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.
At least China regulated it. Tesla and GM still use those handles.
This is pure sinophobia.
Could you point to the part that you consider racism, please?
In what way criticising car manufacturer sinophobe? Is it because it’s a chinese company that you must unconditionally defend it? They’re billionaire ffs, no need you to defend them.
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.
The CCP is a functional government, but one you do not like
You can say that to a lot of government in this world.
That’s the point. Pretty much all governments in the world (except some obviously failed states in Africa)¹ are functional, but their functions are not what you and I would like for them to do.
¹ USA, the state of Israel, the strte of Palestine, Russia and China are all functioning states by my definition.
Didnt know dbzer0 is turning into lemmy.ml
You have to admit that the West is collapsing ahead of Asia. China will be also falling, of course.
Neither of which is challenging my comment but partly agrees with it.
Both the west and the east are on the road to collapse.
And (as you said) the true question is when, not if.
edit: wrong person!
No problem :)
Cheers!
Broken censorious genocidal clocks… or something like that.
And the US doesn’t censor at all, and doesn’t run propaganda via media, interfere with scientific and educational institutions. Or start wars and genocides across the middle east. Or kidnap and assassinate presidents of countries. Or oppress and imprison the most number of people of any country in the world. Only China has human rights violations, not our country.
In the interest of fairness, yes both USA and CN are both dystopian shitholes.
Not sure how any of that is relevant to my comment but okay.
lol try talking with an actual chinese person in 2026 irl, ask them how they feel about their own country. Its not 1952 with mao at the helm. Very illuminating actually talking to someone with direct experience instead of the daily mail and their weird takes based mostly on hearsay and misconstruction
Why would i wanna ask them who the south china sea and taiwan belongs to lmao
I don’t pretend that China is a hell hole, but you just pretend that CCP doesn’t have issue, that’s the difference here. And obviously it also depend who you ask. If i talk to charlie kirk obviously he would say trump is the greatest. Ohh wait he’s dead.
are you speedrunning some sort of ‘biggest amount of baseless assumptions about another person in one sentence’-title?
- I know china’s got many problems worth criticizing, im pretty sure this is actually my first comment even mentioning china at all on this site, so i dont know what makes you think otherwise… All im pushing back on, is you claiming that ‘its not a functional government’.
- i didn’t accuse you of saying its a hellhole. The 1952 comment was rhetorically purely for dramatic effect and not a comment about you. Not everything is.
- tf has charlie kirk got to do with this? xD
are you speedrunning some sort of ‘biggest amount of baseless assumptions about another person in one sentence’-title?
So you said this:
instead of the daily mail and their weird takes based mostly on hearsay and misconstruction
You did it first, honey.
All im pushing back on, is you claiming that ‘its not a functional government’
I said it’s a functional government, maybe i put it in a wrong way but i mean what i said. If that’s all it take to tick you off then maybe it’s a you problem.
i didn’t accuse you of saying its a hellhole. The 1952 comment was rhetorically purely for dramatic effect and not a comment about you. Not everything is.
Didn’t said you accuse me saying that, i simply stated that as a comparison.
tf has charlie kirk got to do with this?
Would’ve think an example that come after a statement is pretty obvious thing, but i expect too much it seems.
Corpos figured out that onerous regulations can keep out competitors who haven’t achieved the economies of scale to pay for compliance.
They will just be kept out of the market in the US. Oligarchs gonna oligarchy.
Maybe now people will stop thinking they’re a premium brand.
Remember when they tried to make you rent the heated seats you already have?
you’d think BMW customers learned from that
Or you’d hope, I guess, because I actually wouldn’t think them smart enough to learn from that
Remember when they installed turn signals you never use?
Oh no! How will me and my soldiering iron cope?
Better get good at CAN bus. Unless u like the Christmas tree look of a lit up dash.
I wonder if they put CAN gateways at the heated seats.
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.
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.
This is brilliant. Single sentence deathblow to BMW marketing.
You have to watch the commercial before you can access the turn signals, right?
That would explain some things.
What models? I have an i4 and I have never been hit with this or those subscription services everyone kept talking about. I wonder if it is happening only in certain models.
Is suspect the model year is more relevant. How new is your vehicle?
2025 model year
It’s possible this will show up in a software update, but maybe you’ll be spared.
It’s not shown in the actual article, but the first source that they provide for references says this.
Bernd Körber, Senior Vice President BMW Brand and Product Management, says: “The launch of the Neue Klasse and Spider-Man™: Brand New Day could not be more fitting. Both stand for a bold new beginning and the confidence to shape what comes next. We are proud to accompany this new Spider-Man™ chapter with the BMW iX3, our first model of the Neue Klasse.”```
So it seems like it’s the Ix3 series. and maybe the 5 series because they indirectly mention it later on
What a dumb move. All this does is discourage me from getting another BMW when my lease is up.
Got it on a 4-series petrol.
with how some stereotypical bmw drivers are, ads will make it worst.
Embarrassing for BMW.
Not as embarrassing as subscriptions to use hardware you paid for.
Best advertisement for chinese cars. Not that they needed one…
Oh great. Most BMW drivers are already distracted and incompetent enough. This bullshit will just make them an even bigger hazard.
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.
That sounds like a great way to guarantee every crash becomes a 100+ car pileup…
With tech like that, surely they would also have other ADAS build in to make sure that wouldn’t happen.
I’d hope it’s tech that works 100% of the time, too (lol).
I had a rental with lane assist once, and that shit nearly killed me when a dude drifted into my lane and my car decided I needed to stay in the same lane and not move over to avoid them. Thankfully cranking the wheel way harder than I should be at highway speeds overrode the lane assist.
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.
trashy cars pretending to be a luxury brand
