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Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display (fuelarc.com)
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Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

One of their sister brands, Jeep, had a hack through the infotainment that let them control the CAN bus and disengage the transmission

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

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