There’s nothing on the planet quite so cynical as advertising. Most of us just accept it as a fact of life, which it is. For a few of us there’s constantly a little grumble of inconvenience at the back of our minds whenever we’re required to endure someone trying to offer us something.

On one hand, an affordable choice needs to be that anyone selling anything needs to make consumers aware of what’s available. You can’t always rely on buyers to actively seek you out. Marketing is reasonable enough, on that basis.

On the other hand there have actually always been limitations to how prevalent this business intrusion into our lives can get. Roadside billboards, radio ads, TELEVISION ads and printed ads are a passive attempt to engage with individuals with cash to invest. They’re great. You don’t have to pay attention if you don’t want to, even though lots of people do.

Nobody can argue that you don’t sometimes gain beneficial details from marketing. It readies to understand, for instance, that there’s a cars and truck parts shop half an hour’s drive from your house that you didn’t know about, and never ever would have learnt about if not for advertising.

On the other hand, the age of connected devices has actually brought with it an extremely different type of advertising. Advertising assists keep publications like this running, so it would be mighty hypocritical of us to call it all bad.

This week we discovered of a system built by an American company called Telenav. It will permit marketers to pipeline their commercials straight to your car’s media screen when the automobile is fixed. Adverts you never requested for and never accepted accept. This, we have a problem with.

Adverts will be delivered either under threat of financial penalties if you don’t ‘select’ to enjoy them, or with a bribe-shaped discount rate on the expense of your linked vehicle services if you do watch them. It depends upon which method you want to look at it. A Telenav representative said:

” This technique helps car makers offset expenses related to connected services, such as cordless data, content, software and cloud services.

” In return for accepting ads in cars, chauffeurs benefit from access to connected services without subscription costs, in addition to new driving experiences that come from the highly-targeted and relevant deals delivered based upon information originating from the car.”

With technology already able to check which method your face is turned and which way your eyes are looking, the vehicle might know whether you’re watching these commercials or not. It may even pause them if you avert, or refuse to let you access the internet until you have actually enjoyed the entire advert(s).

Forgive me if I’m being over-dramatic, however that sounds like being held to ransom in your very own automobile. Your automobile is your personal area. It’s a personal cocoon that you keep exactly the method you want it. You make it look the way you desire, you make it sound the method you desire and you make it feel the method you want. Your choice of design alone is a reflection of who you are, even if the vehicle itself is unmodified. It’s yours, and only you should get to decide what goes on inside it.

Now advertisers want to violate those personal boundaries and stick their starving mouths in where we do not want them. They don’t care whether you want to be left alone, or that it’s your personal area. They want to turn every private cars and truck into a way to require you to see their sales pitch.

Marketing on public transportation is fair video game, but not in individuals’s private vehicles. We do not desire marketing in our vehicles.