Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight
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Is your Challenger using the dealer installed SiriusXM? That would be for new and CPO vehicles. That seems to be what it is linked to.
Y'all are... surprisingly hard to persuade! I thought sharing a literal image of popup ads in the car would be the proof y'all needed to believe it was happening.
I mean, there are... more images of it happening...? Like, damn. Here's an instance of it happening in a Challenger.
Y'all are... surprisingly hard to persuade! I thought sharing a literal image of popup ads in the car would be the proof y'all needed to believe it was happening.
people are being rightfully skeptical of an auto news site using old reddit posts to promote themselves on lemmy. a single instance does not show how widespread the issue is. if you want to be a journalist do better.
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Oh, look...!!
Yet another good reason I'll not buy a new car.
Perfectly happy with my current 03 model thank you...
I said that about my older reliable car. Until I was rear ended at a stop light and it was totaled. During a time that used cars were more expensive than new. (I did find an 8 year old Corolla with high miles and lots of body damage for $18k though!)
I went without a car for nearly a year. Had to buy one when my partner was forced back to work in the office.
Peeking at the used market, it's still not great where I am. Better than 2022-23 at least.
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My â15 car is amazing except for the fact that it only has slow-ass laggy Bluetooth and NO AUX JACK
The removal of 3.5mm jacks with no simple, universal, physical way to connect an audio device has been such a thorn in my side.
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This is old and theyâve already said itâs a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.
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Two weeks ago it was Jeep. Now it's Dodge. This is how it creeps. Are both those companies owned by Crystler?
Yeah, zero surprise seeing this happen to Chrysler/Stellantis cars first.
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Which one is NOT on that list?
For me right now? Mazda. They have always been enjoyable to drive, and if you look at their interiors in everything from the MX-5 and Mazda3 up to their big family SUVs, you see physical controls in the foreground and a moderately sized infotainment screen up and back. Good location for glancing at it, and not for using a touch screen for everything in the car.
Iâve been commuting in a 2012 mazda3 for several years and itâs been fun to drive and mechanically reliable. Also very fuel efficient with one of the early Skyactiv branded drivetrains.
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seems like 80% of people are off road cosplayers these days.
So I drive a Bronco that's 99% stock. I have a roof rack that I added. I do go offroading, but we also have it to tow behind our motorhome since the bronco is flat towable.
I ran into this guy who's in a new (last 5 years), heavily modded Wrangler. He has the fenders cut away, huge winch on the front, etc... I ask him if he has any favorite spots around here and he says "nah I don't really get out and do that anymore."
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Nothing quite says âhigh-performance muscle carâ like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. Thatâs right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.
We need root on our car computers.
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No you wouldn't.
Is this your first time on the Internet? Welcome!
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Next thing you know they'll find a way to advertise in our dreams
This is part of the plot of the movie Dream Scenario
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Which one is NOT on that list?
Public transportation subscription.
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I am so happy that my car doesnât update itself automatically
You know, I was annoyed by that when I had to pay for an out-of-warranty update but now I'm pretty happy that my car is one year too old for automatic updates.
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Nothing quite says âhigh-performance muscle carâ like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. Thatâs right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.
It seems like displaying an ad at a stop light would be a safety issue since it makes it so you can onky look at the screen while moving.
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"Oops! We accidentally incorporates ads into our software! It was an honest mistake..."
I've never wanted to go smashing car windows in a lot until now
Yeah, happened to me last week. I wanted to do a simple bugfix and next thing I knew I had implemented, configured and released an ad solution to our software...
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.........do you not have a fake email you can log into?
I bet someone has "[email protected]"
Actually tried it, seems like gmail doesnt like swear words
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Yes, along with Ram pickup trucks and IIRC Fiat, somehow.
Plus Peugeot, Citroën and Opel.
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It's called Stellantis now.
Oh yeah I did hear that name recently
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The ad was most likely supposed to be shown once. Not literally every single time the car stops at traffic lights. Car companies may be stupid, but not this stupid.
As if that is any better. My dashboard is not their fucking ad space
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There was an article about this few months ago and the exact same reddit post was used there as evidence of this being true. This was most likely a bug and it probably has been fixed since. If what the headline claims here was true there would be tons of videos of it happening to different people on YouTube.
This was most likely a bug and it probably has been fixed since
You have a source for any of your assumptions?
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This was most likely a bug and it probably has been fixed since
You have a source for any of your assumptions?
The source of my assumptions is my mind, but sure, here you go.
A Stellantis spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that âa temporary software glitch affected the ability to instantly opt out in a few isolated cases, though instant opt-out is the standard for all our in-vehicle messages. Our team had already identified and corrected the error, and we are following up directly with the customer to ensure the matter is fully resolved.â
