> the equivalent of a broadcast TV channel that only showed 7 minutes of actual TV content per hour, devoting the other 53 minutes to paid commercials and promotions for other shows on the same channel. Almost no one would watch such a channel.

I recently was in a 45 minutes Uber ride where the driver had the stereo set to the Sirius XM self-advertising channel - the one you get if you haven't subscribed. For 45 minutes, all he listened to was an ad for XM.

Most people just don't care.

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hunterpayne 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or perhaps his free trial ran out and he can't justify the extra expense. Driving Uber isn't exactly a path to riches.

	▲	dmd 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		ok ... but why would you listen to the ad - and nothing else, jsut the ad - for 45 minutes straight? it's not like there aren't a billion other options.
	▲	tgsovlerkhgsel 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I realized that we may soon live in a reality where that's not an option, but I bet the car he had still allowed him to turn off the radio with the ad. (I'm sure there would have also been countless ways to make the thing play actual music, but turning it off is the most obvious course of action.)

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keybored 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tales from HN techies interacting with regular people.

> Most people just don't care.

So proceed as normal.

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etiennebausson 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it possible that he was paid to play such add to his passengers?

	▲	AxEy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I've definitely seen behind-the-front-seats screen ad placement and other weird things in ride shares in the U.S. so this doesn't seem out of the question.