[HN Gopher] The First Car Ad Shows What Changed, What Hasn't ___________________________________________________________________ The First Car Ad Shows What Changed, What Hasn't Author : pseudolus Score : 13 points Date : 2022-07-24 11:02 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.thedrive.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.thedrive.com) | addicted wrote: | The article claims that the ad is a lot more wordy than ads | today, which they attribute to decreased attention spans. Which | may have something to do with it, but I suspect the real reason | in this case is that the ad looks like an article. | | It looks more like an unattributed sponsored post than an ad. | hairofadog wrote: | Adjacent to this topic, I was recently thinking about how little | commercial air travel has changed in the past 50 years. You can | no longer smoke on an airplane, which is great. Security is a | nightmare, which is less great. Has anything else changed? | rwc wrote: | Safety! That's the biggest change. | | https://news.aviation-safety.net/2017/12/30/preliminary-asn-... | Aloha wrote: | You hit the nail on the head there. | kevinventullo wrote: | I believe it is far more convenient as there are now many more | direct flights and they're much cheaper after adjusting for | inflation. | hamrickdavid wrote: | Not a ton has changed for the better - but a few things have: | 1. Ticket prices have come down in real terms (especially with | the advent of low cost airlines) 2. Fuel economy on newer | jets has improved 3. Increased number of routes and | frequencies 4. Lie flat seats in business and above on | long haul 5. WiFi on planes 6. In-flight | entertainment - both seatback units and video over WiFi | ghaff wrote: | And you don't need to basically go into a travel agent and | get a piece of paper that is incredibly hard to replace if | lost. | | In general, travel information is a lot more frictionless. | Flight cancelled, bags lost? There's an app for that. And in | general, clothing expectations mean I have to check bags a | lot fewer times. | | As you say, seating is better if you're willing to pay for it | but I've never bought WiFi on a flight. It's one of the few | opportunities I have to really read anyway. | Aloha wrote: | Airplanes no long crash into the earth at an alarmingly | frequent rate. | | Like they used to sell life insurance _at the airport_ | because of both the perception of how unsafe things were and | the reality of it - per Wikipedia, in 1969 there were 21 air | crashes or incidents - the vast majority of which had | fatalities, in 2019, there were 12, the vast majority of | which had none - this on top of an order of magnitude more | flights in 2019 vs 1969 - the disparity grows even further | when you look back into the 50 's. | lazycouchpotato wrote: | The significant "cool" things I can think of is internet on | planes, and being able to take a shower on certain first class | flights. | | https://youtu.be/84WIaK3bl_s?t=424 | ghaff wrote: | I don't find Internet on flights a particular convenience | and, if you can take showers at airline clubs, that's not a | big deal either. And I've never taken advantage of in either | case. | drdaeman wrote: | > I don't find Internet on flights a particular convenience | | YMMV. I love being able to stay in touch with my folks or | scroll HN/Reddit while I'm in the air with nothing to do | but read a book or try to nap. | | > take showers at airline clubs | | That video is about Emirates First Class, where one can | take a shower during the flight. This kind of convenience | costs somewhat obscene amount of money, most people here I | guess aren't the target audience. | pessimizer wrote: | The main thing it dismisses is the "faster horse" myth. People | wanted to DISPENSE WITH A HORSE. | sonofhans wrote: | The point of the quote -- "If I had asked people what they | wanted, they would have said faster horses." -- is that until | the motorcar existed most people would not have been able to | imagine it. This ad does nothing to contradict that. | jhowison wrote: | One of the comments on that article refutes that claim: That is | not the first car ad, although the claim has long been made. | https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/americas-first-automobil...? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-25 23:00 UTC)