Scene and heard

This is mostly non-Political. I’m talking commercial ideas of phenomenal stupidity or crassness which have sold. The concept here is that, whereas it took one damned fool to have the idea, he/she had to pitch it to bosses or marketers and they were so impressed, that they brought them to market.

At a time when hand held mobile phones are being banned from use by drivers, and experts point out that any phone conversations are distracting, more and more cars are now putting GPS monitors on the Drivers’ dashboard. GPS is great! But could it not be distracting for someone to concentrate on a monitor while driving? Might it be possible for the monitor to go out while the vehicle is in motion?

Along these lines, but perhaps rather worse, was the idea that found its way into some Mercedes cars a few short years back – in England, at least. Video monitors showing live TV. (Was there a DVD option?) I saw these twice while driving a bus. One time, it was tuned to a music video channel. Barely clad, generously fleshed and highly flexible hips were undulating provocatively on the screen. OK! And this isn’t going to make a guy’s concentration waver? Does Mercedes Benz give politicians free Limos? There certainly can’t be a good reason for this passing as legal!