{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/ford-wants-billboards-to-beam-distracting-ads-to-screens-inside-your-car/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Ford Wants Billboards to Beam Distracting Ads to Screens Inside Your Car","slug":"ford-wants-billboards-to-beam-distracting-ads-to-screens-inside-your-car","createdLocal":"2021-05-13 14:30:43.840989","publishDate":"None","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bnz7/ford-wants-billboards-to-beam-distracting-ads-to-screens-inside-your-car"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>According to a recently-published patent filed by American auto giant Ford, the latest frontier for this colonization is the inside of your car.\nThe company's patent filing describes a system that would equip cars with billboard-reading sensors, allowing cars to scan roadside signs for relevant information and then display them on screens inside smart cars.\nThe patent filing also describes generating hyperlinks for internet-connected cars based on data gathered from segments of billboard images.\nA screenshot from Ford's patent filing, which describes a method for scanning billboard information and sending it to an in-car display.\nThe most common form of distracted driving—checking text messages—takes a driver's attention away from the road for roughly 5 seconds.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"ford-wants-billboards-to-beam-distracting-ads-to-screens-inside-your-car"}}}