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'New Driver' iPhone 15 Ad Highlights Automatic Check In
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It’s nice technology but I know my mum would much prefer I called!
Great ad… with the volume turned all the way down.
Driving like Caitlyn Jenner.
Dad needs to be worried about the other drivers on the road (and pedestrians) 😂
Dad needs to be worried about the other drivers on the road (and pedestrians) 😂
Weird ad. Maybe if your new driver is so bad at driving, be their passenger and teach them before they start to drive alone being danger for both themselves and other drivers?
Driver in the ad is just accident waiting to happen. Imagine kid instead of the trash container...
Driver in the ad is just accident waiting to happen. Imagine kid instead of the trash container...
Sounds like a bad mix of the song from the sound of music sung by the Von Trapp family 
As a father of three teenage girls many years ago, there was never a need to feed my fear. I was terrified lol. It's something you learn to live with, but parents today are lucky to have a way to see where their kids are. When I think of how much more parents have to worry about these days I think it must be pretty tough. But *sigh, I do see your point.
These days, we like to let our friends know when we've arrived home safe after leaving party late at night. And I wouldn't mind if my wife let me know when she's safely home from a long run on our busy roads and I'm at work. Things like that make it seem like a cool feature. No harm, just a small way to look after one another. I like it.
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Tha real danger in coming from inside the house.
Dreadful ad:
- Dad needs therapy.
- Daughter needs driving lessons.
- Ad needs better music.
- Apple needs Jobs.
Perhaps a horror film soundtrack would be more appropriate, i.e. sonorous organ music?The ad is OK, but the music bites! Boo, Apple
What happened to calling your loved ones? Helicopter society.
my grandson is 27, ask him to let us know he got somewhere safely and he always forgets he has a phone in his pocket... just the way society is today... no body cares anymore...
Did you do the “one-ring” thing?When I was a wee whippersnapper, we would call when we arrived at a destination. Not that it was necissarily the destination we said we were going
We’d do that. Let it ring once then hang up, that way no one was charged for the call.
Now that I have had 24 hours to think about this and sleep on my earlier comments about my daughter starting to drive, I have begun to reflect on my life as a college student when I was her age.
When it was time to return to college, my dad would give me his credit card and let me fill my car with gas. I didn't tell him that back then, I also bought a pack of Lucky Strikes, which is unbelievable to me now.
My college was 300 miles from home if I went the shortest way. I never went the shortest way. In fact, there were times when I took such circuitous routes to school that I would have to pull off the road and call my parents from a payphone and tell them I had made it to school when, in fact, I still had two hours left to drive. As a result, I know a great deal about the location of small towns in Virginia.
My car was a Ford Fairmont, a complete, unreliable, disaster of a car, one step above walking. I would periodically have to pull over, remove the fuel filter, clean out the gunk, reinstall it, and then drive until I had to do it again. This specific car had so few features that a mechanic once told me that my uncle, who had ordered this car for my grandparents, had likely paid more to make the features so sparse.
My parents, of course, knew none of this.
TLDR: Ignorance is bliss. If you are lucky, you are old for a long time, but you are only young for a brief time. Take the long way. Just remember to call home when you get there (if not sooner).
When it was time to return to college, my dad would give me his credit card and let me fill my car with gas. I didn't tell him that back then, I also bought a pack of Lucky Strikes, which is unbelievable to me now.
My college was 300 miles from home if I went the shortest way. I never went the shortest way. In fact, there were times when I took such circuitous routes to school that I would have to pull off the road and call my parents from a payphone and tell them I had made it to school when, in fact, I still had two hours left to drive. As a result, I know a great deal about the location of small towns in Virginia.
My car was a Ford Fairmont, a complete, unreliable, disaster of a car, one step above walking. I would periodically have to pull over, remove the fuel filter, clean out the gunk, reinstall it, and then drive until I had to do it again. This specific car had so few features that a mechanic once told me that my uncle, who had ordered this car for my grandparents, had likely paid more to make the features so sparse.
My parents, of course, knew none of this.
TLDR: Ignorance is bliss. If you are lucky, you are old for a long time, but you are only young for a brief time. Take the long way. Just remember to call home when you get there (if not sooner).
Thats like saying riding a motorcycle could be safer than a car because the motorcycle fares better if you plunge into a lake.
If your that worried invest $20 in an emergency window breaker.
Regardless the amount of people who die because the electronics on their vehicle failed and the windows didn't roll down is tiny. The amount of people who die every hour of every day because of a motor vehicle collision should be much more of a concern as it can happen literally anywhere in any weather condition and the death rate improvement in models from today compared to the 00's is staggering......40+% improvement depending on class of vehicle.
The more I think of his the more I find this concerning. Apple gets a boatload of info from us. Why are we adding to it for something like this?
Nah. I understand what an opinion is. Just accept that we don’t agree and move on.
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