Comments on: Talking Billboards

By: bobby o

bobby o — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:17:51 +0000

This can’t be any worst than the idiots talking on a handset cell phone, drinking a cup of hot coffee and reading the daily sports page. As for personal privacy — that is another matter.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:49:42 +0000

Forget talking billboards — howabout programmable message signs in automobiles? The slogan can be “Taking road rage to a whole new level.”

By: sarah k

sarah k — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:58:40 +0000

Billboards DO deliver personal messages – remember the one that “spoke” to Steve Martin in “L.A. Story”?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:34:57 +0000

Tom–Did you know that your car: was built on Monday? …has been recalled? …is reporting that you have exceeded redline rpms on 16 different occasions? …is overdue for service and your warranty has been voided?…that your fly is unzipped? …that your inflatable passenger is not properly belted?

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:55:08 +0000

That’s a little creepy if you ask me. Heh, and a good way to make someone crash:

“Honey, we’re having TWINS!!”

By: nick

nick — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:30:26 +0000

I drive by this billboard every morning as I head through downtown SF, and make my way to the Bay Bridge to take me into San Leandro. It changes each day, with a new message, and each day I think that the woman driving next to me is going to clip me, as she is looking to see what it reads….

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:00:46 +0000

why is reading this billboard more of a traffic hazard than reading any billboard (or looking at a bikini clad figure)?

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:39:52 +0000

I know my privacy is an illusion, but I hate to have the bubble burst. Mark me down in the “too far” side of the ballot.

Also, when I heard about this billboard on the radio this morning, they added that the FHTSA is currently investigating to see if such a billboard posses a traffic hazard. I assume the billboards are installed in areas where the traffic is often at a stand-still anyway.

By: Croptilldawn

Croptilldawn — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:39:14 +0000

Peter your wife says to get milk on the way home.

By: Undeniable Liberal

Undeniable Liberal — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:07:22 +0000

Tin foil hat time…..that is technology that could be abused. But I DO like sheldon’s comment. Haaahaha. Mark too.