Ads for Cars

[GregoryK]

So I used to be a "lead foot". I raced bikes for a couple of years and used to track some of my cars.
That being said I'm astounded that commercials for cars are allowed to show smoking tires. WTF. Car tires are super polluting. Tires are made of 24% synthetic rubber, along with hundreds of other components like steel and heavy metals (toxic metals), which break down into microplastic fragments. These PMs pollute the air, soil, and water.
So spinning your cars rear wheels and creating smoke from the burnt rubber is just "show off rubbish" and it's not helpful in any way (well maybe on a drag strip). Lets stop doing it and stop car companies showing it in there ads. It is beyond irresponsible.

 

[LoudMusic]

At one point there were laws about showing cars being driven over the speed limit. I don't know if that's currently a thing. It was claimed it encouraged illegal behavior or something.

 

[AS9.9.]

People enjoy doing burnouts. It's their tires and their money. It is silly to focus on such a small form of pollution when it is insignificant when looking at the larger picture.

No hate, but good luck getting car companies to remove this from their ads.

 

[GregoryK]

At one point there were laws about showing cars being driven over the speed limit. I don't know if that's currently a thing. It was claimed it encouraged illegal behavior or something.

I'm feeling this is more like "smoking on airplanes" than driving fast.

 

[GregoryK]

This is not so much about burnouts. It's about how we foreget about how polluting our tires are. The dust from just normal driving is a serious polluter. I agree burnouts are a small polluter.

 

[ThomasD]

Maybe we shouldn't use our Brakes either

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