This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

People forget that emissions reduction isn’t just about global climate change but also local air quality. Sure, it doesn’t matter as much in rural areas where there are fewer cars. However, in large cities it adds up and makes air quality plummet. People have a right to fresh air. Idiots are going to bring back smog and increase lung cancer because of a minor annoyance that most people don’t even notice.

The entire video is WTF material. The AI-generated part is the least of my worries.

They are on the right side of the Porsche but look to their right?? I’d say that’s another one of the flubs here.

Y’know, just on top of all of the disgusting bullshit that they’re trying to say with the video itself. Fuck I can’t wait til you yanks do something about this shit down there (please).

This ad is not only about cars. It’s a political ad where “blue haired lesbian Democrats get dusted by a beautiful blonde Republican woman”. This is what they’re trying to convey.

It’s a stupid policy but it’s playing to the base of stubborn idiots and boomers. I know of several boomers that get irrationally angry at the fact that their engine stops and they have to wait a quarter of a second sometimes for their brand new car to start at a red light. You point out that this gives an appreciable increase in fuel economy, sometimes significant, and they don’t give a shit because they’re selfish assholes who would destroy the entire world to not be inconvenienced for the briefest of moments.

Those people will remember this

There something else wrong with their Prius if the AC blows hot when running on the drive battery. Also, the Prius is snappy off the line and powerful out of a turn… but comparing an AI “sexy coke” Ferrari to an AI “neo-liberal gay” Prius is just stupid. They even zoom out like it was a legit drag race.

Interesting back windshield wiper that only wipes half the windshield.

Red car is on the passenger side first, then suddenly on the drivers side.

The whole thing is a lie. My conventionally attractive hetero wife wanted a hybrid Toyota minivan over a Tahoe. It hauls ass, AC traction motors provide instant torque from a stop and the engine fires up while spinning - zero lag. 100% smooth acceleration. Priuses surely work exactly the same way.

Conservatives need to be reminded that these are the kind of lies that manipulated them into giving total control of the US government to pedophile “elites”.

I agree with most you say, just two things: red car teleports from right to left of the prius, and auto startstop is a software feature and can literally be flashed to be off by default.

I’m not sure it’s possible to hate this administration more than I already do. But everyday they’re out here, making the absolute most dogshit choices available, trying to reach a new high score. I’m not speaking in hyperbole when I say that drumpf is literally the antichrist.

So many levels of wrong. That’s a gen 2, maybe 3 Prius. Both of which have instant electric torque and scroll style AC compressors which run with the engine off. Excellent cars which are still good value today.

I once rented the cheapest three cylinder Renault to drive in the mountainous terrain in 40 degree heat. The car barely managed to go uphill but not once I had problems with the AC or the start stop system. In the heat the car would stop the engine and then turn it back on as soon as temperature deviated from the set target. This would repeat two to three times, then it would just preemptively show a message on the screen saying “prioritizing thermal comfort” when stopped. The start-stop would resume as usual when it got cooler, no input was required at all.

Never got the hate for the feature, you just have to remember to jerk the steering wheel a bit before the light change if starting 1.5 seconds earlier is critical.

It’s amazing how soulless things are when you take humans out of the equation

Absolute shit tier, even down to the “ugly blue haired lesbian” stereotype.

Perhaps my Prius is different but the AC doesn’t turn off when I stop. When the car is not demanding power it runs off the battery this includes the AC. The engine comes on when I sit for too long but I assume that would be the case with any start stop system. With the windows are down your not going to get much cooling anyway. The age of that Prius could also do with a refilling the AC coolers if they are not getting the temp down. This is such a weird point to run on and one that has been solved with newer cars.

I was legitimately confused what they were even attacking since auto start/stop has been so inconsequential in my life that I didn’t even notice they were randomly trying to attack something nobody has ever complained about. Thanks you clarifying, lol.

The ineffectiveness of the ad is probably the fault of AI, too, I suppose. It’s a dogshit ad by any marketing standard, anyway, and I can’t imagine the minds at the Whitehouse producing a non-AI ad of better quality, lol.

Of course they conveniently place two blue-haired “liberal” women in the car with the auto start stop to “own the libs”

I’m not a fan of auto start and stop but I think it’s because I am older. I never owned a reliable car before 2003 so it’s pretty ingrained in my head that when the engine unexpectedly shuts off, it may not start again. I think it’s a trauma response to owning pieces of shit for a decent chunk of my life.

… somehow the US government still manages to surprise me. It even has product placement worked into it?

There are preschoolers with fingerpaint and construction paper making better graphics than this and the current administration should not be allowed within 1000 yards of any of them.

The AC system is electric in the Prius. It doesn’t just kick-in when stopped. Its electric all the time. If the battery goes low, then the engine is turned on.

Didn’t the white House literally have a used Tesla dealership on the front lawn? I’m getting mixed messages.

I hate auto stop. It always freaks me out and I dislike how the AC stops working when I stop at a light. So, I did something about it and got an EV. Bonus points, my EV does 0-60 in 2.6 seconds which is far faster than any sportscar I’ve ever been on, including Ferraris.

Who let Dennis Reynolds write a “PSA”?

break lights

Brake lights; Right?

Not sure on the auto stop being a good thing from the get-go. Co-worker’s work truck has auto stop in it. It’s on its second starter motor at this point, though that may be down to the fact it’s a Ford, more than anything else.

Wasn’t sure if I was in /fuckcars or /fuckai .

Both is good :)

I’ll be honest, fuck trump, but FUCK STOP START. That shit is dangerous as hell and is asking to leave you stranded at an intersection after dieing the millionth time using your starter.

The “video” even zooms in on the button that can toggle the feature on and off.

Women look at the red car to the right, then the red car is on left when it accelerates. No human producer would make that mistake.

The brake lights aren’t the only thing. When the camera changes and the red car is zooming away you can see the cross streets change and maybe even has a stop light extremely high on a telephone pole?

I live in an extremely humid area, and I can tell immediately when the engine stops, because it starts bringing in the heavy, outside air. I turn off auto stop every single time. I’d prefer not to have it in my car.

On the other hand, obviously fuck this bullshit ad. The content of the ad is gross, the use of stereotypes is gross, the fact that it’s generative AI is gross, and it’s especially gross that all this is coming from the government. I’m disgusted by this whole thing, and it’s only 8AM, which is actually a little late in the day to start feeling disgusted by the Trump regime now that I think about it.

I also just noticed that the street looks very different depending on whether the camera is placed behind the cars or behind the cars but higher up, at the 13th second of the video there is a noticeable change.

I hate auto stop. Its just an excuse for automanfautures to produce larger vehicles while claiming better “fuel economy”, but at the cost of higher maintenance. There should have been a push for hybirds and phev’s which have far greater fuel economy without the negative maintenance costs.