{"id":1235067,"date":"2025-02-26T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235067"},"modified":"2025-02-26T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:22:31","slug":"in-car-advertising-glitch-may-be-preview-of-a-distracting-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235067","title":{"rendered":"In-car advertising glitch may be preview of a distracting future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site\u2014complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/assholedesign\/comments\/1iij34r\/jeep_puts_an_ad_covering_my_entire_screen_and_it\/\">wrote<\/a>, a promotion for an extended warranty plan popped up in the center console. \u201cPress the \u2018call\u2019 button to speak to a specialist,\u201d they say the ad encouraged, welcoming the user to use their Bluetooth connection to complete the upsell then and there.<\/p>\n<p>Ads are annoying and occasionally insidious; an ad that repeatedly appears inside one\u2019s own car more so. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GrandCherokee\/comments\/be34iv\/anyone_elses_jeep_displaying_ads_via_uconnect_17\/\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4xeforums.com\/threads\/mopar-extended-warranty-ads-on-uconnect-stop-it.5707\/?post_id=77831&amp;nested_view=1&amp;sortby=oldest#post-77831\">online<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/assholedesign\/comments\/13kgqg9\/jeep_puts_ads_on_the_fucking_screen_in_my_car\/\">posts<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/assholedesign\/comments\/bzrz6k\/my_car_sending_me_ads_while_im_driving\/\">Reddit<\/a> and Jeep forums, the issue goes back several years, affecting several models of Jeeps.<\/p>\n<p>Stellantis, which owns Jeep, says the repetitive nature of the promotion was a glitch. \u201cThis is an isolated incident affecting fewer than ten vehicles at this time limited to the US,\u201d Dan Reid, a spokesperson for the automaker, wrote in a statement. He acknowledged, though, that Stellantis shows other drivers in-vehicle promotions, too. Dodge owners, for example, get an infotainment push after 60 days of purchase offering the Dodge Complete Performance Package, a comprehensive warranty offering. Stellantis says that, on average, customers receive about two in-vehicle messages annually, containing safety, maintenance, or marketing information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/in-car-advertising-glitch-may-be-preview-of-a-distracting-future\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/in-car-advertising-glitch-may-be-preview-of-a-distracting-future\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site\u2014complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep, they wrote, a promotion for an extended warranty plan popped up in the center &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}