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Soon: ads on your HUD while you wait in traffic.

This has already happened: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/jeep-dodge-owners-mad-infotainm...

Last year we got a rental car when we were in Florida. When we first left the airport, we were using the navigation app that was in the car. First red light? Navigation app suddenly goes black and a commercial starts playing. My wife and I both look at each other like, "WTF is going on?!?" Light turns green commercial clips out and the navigation app starts working again. We waited to see if it happened at the next light. Sure enough, the last commercial finished and another started as the light turned green.

Tuned it off and used our phones from there to the hotel. That was the last time we used a rental cars navigation.

So yeah, its already happening.

This would be the last time I used that rental car company. If they wanted to make more money from you, they should have just raised the price. That is disgusting.

There's only so many rental companies. It might look like there's a lot, but they are all pretty much a sibling company to a larger parent.

I've got a great startup idea - airbnb but it's for renting out your car. Nothing could possibly go wrong!

Doesn't that already exist?

... does it? I've seen stuff like zipcar but that's centralized ownership.

Someone else posted Turo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turo_(company)

New Zealand had a service called YourDrive[1] that was pitched exactly as "AirBnB for cars"[2]. I used it a couple of times and it was great, super affordable. Unfortunately they didn't survive the Covid crunch.

[1] https://www.drivencarguide.co.nz/news/new-zealand-startup-le...

[2] https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/17-09-2017/the-airbnb-for-c...

Thanks for the link. I once again find myself in that exceedingly strange zone where satire and reality become undifferentiable and I begin questioning my understanding of the world.

Turo.

Just be thankful the ads were on a display that you could disable. Soon, we'll have heads-up displays that project partially transparent videos over your windshield, so you literally can't drive without looking at an ad. And add in advertisements playing over the audio system on full blast with no way to turn it off.

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