That has little to do with advertising though. When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising. When you take public transit, the buses and the trains can have ads inside and outside.
The bus advertising business seemed to have taken a beating a few years back. It is true that in Washington the bus shelters have ads, often electronic.
I regularly complain about both of those things to all of the relevant political and transit authorities.
Far more so in the US[0] than in any of the parts of Europe I've lived in or visited[1].
[0] Around much of CA, RI, MA, passing through NV and CT, and the cities of NYC, Salt Lake City and Newark in NY, UT and NJ.
[1] Spain, France, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungry, Finland, Greece, Cyprus.
Advertisements inside my car, especially if the begin to use my speakers, is infinitely more annoying than a billboard (which, yes, is also annoying).
Advertisements on trains/etc. are more annoying than billboards, but less annoying than advertisements in something I am supposed to own.
I think the concern is that once/if a critical mass of manufacturers include in-car ads, the rest can follow (because people still need vehicles in most areas), and the consumer has no more choice.
I mean, this is still awful, right? Subscriptions for the car I spent tens of thousands of dollars on?
>Seems to work fine with streaming platforms, for instance.
It's awful here, too, in my opinion. But tolerable because I didn't spend multiple years paying to own the product.
Alternatively framed: $1000/year discount for opting into ads.
I'll save us the back and forth: there is no model you can present (or reframing of a model) that will make me think advertisements (or an everlasting subscription to remove advertisements) in the car that I own is okay. It's profoundly depressing that I have to write it out that explicitly.
For now.
I've yet to see an advertisement on a bus or train that wasn't easily ignorable. It's a lot harder to ignore things when you're driving
Buying a car, which haven’t had ads previously, only to discover after the fact that it serves ads is a change to the status quo. Even more so if the ads were pushed via firmware update and not something that was originally spec’ed (no clue if this is what happened, but sounds plausible, given lack of details).
That's why I mentioned "digital ad displays" specifically, because as other commenters have noted, are starting to pop up in some places.
As opposed to a TV that you own? You even paid for the cable subscription.