This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.
I think such things are banned in Australia. Clearly not safe for traffic.
Which is strange since we have full size electronic billboards (in WA). I don’t believe they can have scrolling text/animations etcs, but they will change once or twice in the time you can see them at fwy speeds.
They are super repulsive to me because they are more vibrant and attention demanding than traditional printed billboards (especially in low light conditions) and feel like late 90’s pop-up ads.Also i dont need a ~25m² screen changing in my peripheral vision when im already busy keeping to keep an eye on some dickhead in a lifted ford raptor or Yank Tank who is cutting through traffic.
Yeah it’s ok on a static object by law, but not on a moving vehicle.
And yes, even here in Armidale we have about four of them, and they don’t seem to have night dimming so can be a bit blinding.
Technical education opens doors, or your child.
Please don’t open my child.
I saw this, too, and I don’t even have a child.
Put the knife away Waltuh
(psssst ackshually it says “for”)
Why you gotta ruin it for us?
Alternate question: How powerful of a laser do you need to burn out the LEDs on those sort of displays?
At least three.
Maybe even four.
Looks like it’s supposed to say that, but currently doesn’t. Lol
I saw one of those big rig trucks where the trailer was completely covered in LED advertising displays, on the left, right and back.
One of the ads was regarding broken phones, saying something along the lines of ‘broken glass is a good thing’. Don’t quote me on the exact wording though, I only saw that ad once, but it was regarding trade-ins and upgrades.
Kinda ironic to have such an ad displayed on a truck where you’re tempted to bust their display with a sledgehammer…
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They do need to be that bright at daytime, and most indeed use automatic brightness by default. If only there was a technology that could use daylight instead of fighting it…
cons: significantly more expensive, don’t work in total darkness, don’t catch attention
They have an LED each in the top-right corner of the corresponding dot. The LEDs use different driving signals (much higher frequency and not just when the display changes) but are kept in sync with the slow-updating display to allow both technologies to complement each other: they do work in total darkness and faulty dots have LEDs as a fallback; the LEDs are half-brightness at night, full brightness at dusk and off in daylight.
Also, they were significantly LESS expensive than a sufficiently luminous LED display in the 90s before superbright LEDs existed.
As I said in another comment, they weren’t designed for ads but info signage, so they don’t actively catch attention, which is what you want to get a visually cleaner environment.
I mean, I don’t think an advert needs to be illuminated at all, frankly
This is in general for LED text signs. The “inventors” (more like engineers because they just combined multiplexing with superbright LEDs) OP mentioned probably didn’t specify a purpose, they just wanted a more reliable alternative to mechanical or manual signage but yes, most are for ads.
They also don’t need to be visible, or exist at all for that matter. I despise ads.
Try going even one day without seeing a fucking ad…
First off, the only real way to accomplish that, aside from being in a coma, is to spend the day out in the woods somewhere.
Then, when you get tangled up in a thorny vine and pull out your knife, BAM, advertising logo!
Then when you want to start a fire, you bust out your lighter, and BAM, advertising logo!
I mean, I don’t mind brands visible on purchased goods per se, it’s the same as a maker’s mark like artisans have added to their wares for thousands of years. It’s no more an ad than a book including the name of its author on the front.
But it’s my conscious choice to buy certain products from certain brands, with careful considerations to quality and price. If a product is good and it is reasonably priced, I don’t care if they have a logo on there. But I don’t go buying products for the brand.
Where ads are different is that they intrude into parts of our lives they have no right to be in.
I want to watch some sports, but no, ads everywhere.
I want to watch a movie, but I have to sit through all the ads first.
I am waiting at the bus/train stop and there’s business posters everywhere, and then the bus/train pulls up and it’s covered in ads inside and out, all during my commute.
I’m in the waiting room at the doctor’s office having a panic attack about the results of some recent tests and there’s a dumb ad on the wall with some smiling white lady staring directly at me, who has everything figured out and can now live life to the fullest thanks to her doctor having prescribed [DrugName]™.
That’s the shit I can’t stand. When it’s not possible to simply exist in life without some entity trying to extract capital from you at every turn.
Don’t look at your shirt, shoes, socks, pants, hat, water bottle, or even you camera either. If you packed your lunch, you likely see a brand there too in the wrapper.
Those aren’t ads…
Wait until you see the ones with video screens…
Ffs of all the colors they could have used too.
In my area once in awhile I’ll see this box truck where it’s covered in LED screens with animated ads on it that drives around. Annoying at best, a road hazard at worst.
Same here, and great that it’s wasting gas and polluting at the same time! I hate it with a burning passion.
They drive these up and down the Las Vegas strip, which generally is snarled with traffic. So adding to traffic too.
I’m surprised that’s legal. You’d think it would distract other drivers
freedom of expression does also matter, how much more distracting is this compared to if it was made with retroreflectors? Could these lights be confused for hazards? Is this any different than having a glowing “taxi” sign on a taxi?
to whomever invented
LEDadvertisements.fuck being bombarded with literal propaganda all day.
FYI, your post title should use “whoever”, not “whomever”.
A good trick to tell whether to use “who” or “whom” is to replace “whom” with “him” or “who” with “he”. It’ll be immediately obvious (to a native English speaker) which is correct.
Whomever invented LED bus advertisements becomes Him invented LED bus advertisements
Vs
Whoever invented some stupid shit becomes He invented some stupid shit
It says “to”. To whom.
Yes, that’s normally a good rule to follow, since “whom” is for a sentence’s object, but this is a special case. The clause in question is either a salutation that has no subject or object, and so either “whoever” or “whomever” is correct, or it’s a subject clause (a noun phrase, really) with an unnecessary, stylized “to” for the sake of comedic impact, in which case “whoever” would be correct.
here just the city lights, and city street high beamers, and tall trucks that have only high beams and higher beams… anyway those are blinding enough as it is
I’m sure I’ve seen them with the side panel showing the route the bus was travelling on.
No surprise that they eventually gave that up for ad money.
Next step will be to have that screen in colour and animated. And speakers.
You mean like these?
Saw one of those yesterday. Should be super illegal, they’re so bright.
Wake up babe, new Ad Block just dropped.
I always keep an eye out for the comments that would be the most incomprehensible shown in the last century.
What made you unable to look in a different direction?
Sir, this is c/mildlyinfuriating, let me whinge in peace.
Really? Count the things you’re not allowed to show in public. It’s almost like you can’t go through life with your eyes literally closed so the world doesn’t bother you.
You have to know that, though, so you must be trolling.
