792
BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display
(consumerrights.wiki)
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
792 points (98.8% liked)
Technology
86816 readers
4445 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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?
Maybe they 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.
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.