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geofflambert -> RE: OT Things to ponder (8/9/2016 12:16:09 AM)
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There's this commercial about a "***ck", let's call it an Endeavor. I hope there's no car model under any label named "Endeavor", but if there is it's their fault, not mine. Let's not let me get too far out of hand griping about car commercials. The only ones that talk about features instead of trying to sell how the car looks talk about how their model will apply the brakes without your permission. Now I'm going to envision myself as an insurance company executive and try to figure out my risk exposure to letting a car company, my client, install technology that will take over the operations of an automobile from the otherwise insurable driver. Our experience with the AI in this game should lead all of us to never purchase such a car. There will nonetheless be lots of people who will. Maybe they will think "well, if you know, like maybe I'm texting and not watching where I'm driving and the car will take over and keep me from killing anyone". All the car ads that are for cars without that feature mostly show apple pie and kittens to give us a warm feeling about their automobile. I guess all cars are the same as long as they have apple pie and kittens in them. We can quibble about how much cinnamon is in the pie or how cute the kittens are, but that's where the auto industry seems to be stuck, whether foreign or domestic. Well, I really have a different axe to grind today. Remember that actor dressed up like a cowboy sitting on a horse and this woman writhing in the dirt was crying "Jesse, don't leave!" and the cowboy said "I'm a loner and a loner's got to be alone" and he rides off and gets knocked off his horse by a graphic on the screen and the woman cries "Jesse???, Jesse?". Pretty funny really but not effective because I don't remember what the ad was for. Anyways, that actor is a little itty bitty guy, maybe 5'2" if that. He was in a car commercial about a year ago and when he stood next to the car he was trying to sell that car's roof was higher than the top of his head and it looked yuuuuuuuuuge. So anyway, this vehicle I'm calling an "Endeavor", it is being sold as an SUV. It looks to me like it's a compact car that is made to look like an SUV and I've tried hard to envision it as an SUV. I just can't pull it off. End of Rant for the Day.
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