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Toyota ran and ad campaign in Sweden in 2015 that targeted Siri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA. In th
by kimburgess 10y ago
Toyota ran and ad campaign in Sweden in 2015 that targeted Siri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqZBVTMrgFA.
In their current state, voice assistants appear to be wide open for abuse. You think auto-play ads on sites are bad now? Wait until they start auto-ordering for you too.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoThat add is genious
- Keverw 10y agoOh wow. That's a neat ad, but kinda creepy... What if someone was already using their phone hand free? Listening to Pandora to their cars BlueTooth? Or even if they weren't using their phone at all - the fact that Siri is being activated without them doing so could be a distraction. Or maybe even stop their turn by turn navigation... So then they have to try and drive while restarting it. Maybe they don't even remember the address, so they have to open the app and go to recents or check their email(Not Sure if Siri handles that part too). I wonder if they'd be prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if they did that same thing here in America. Hacking people's phones from the radio it feels to me.
- pluma 10y agoNavigation was actually the first problem that came to my mind too. There are plenty of legitimate uses of smartphones while driving. Airplane mode seems like a solution to the wrong problem.
- chris_7 10y agoWhy is this in English? Both the ad itself, and the prompt for Siri - which is presumably set to Swedish on most people's phones in Sweden?
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoI don't know what the Siri prompt actually is in Sweden, however 'Hej' is an incredibly common greeting there and sounds like Hey.