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It’s pretty weird that we allow advertising to attempt to distract you while you’re doing the most dangerous thing you generally do daily: driving.


Sometimes they contain too much information to read as you're driving by, other times they are simple but annoying like this one:

https://mumbrella.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Ashley-M...

But what I find the worst these days are ultra-bright large LED screens. At night they are blindingly bright. One in particular in my area installed at a shopping plaza, is so bright I need to look away when walking by. Its "ad light" floods the whole area.


Ironically there are even billboards about how other distractions like texting while driving kills.


There is literally a billboard on the highway in British Columbia that is a pair of skidmarks descending into a valley with large font that says "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD". During the night this sign is lit like a christmas tree, very bright.

I could never get over how difficult it was to ignore that stupid billboard every time I crossed it.




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