24-02-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com

Car Ads Never Tell the Truth About Traffic

How is this image from a car ad lying to us? Screenshot from YouTube
One more thing about "Sheet Metal," a 2003 advertisement for automobiles manufactured by an American company that was made to compete with Japanese imports but failed to survive the economic crash of 2008, Saturn Corporation. Because the ad "portrays a number of auto-related scenarios—a car backing out a driveway, bad traffic on a highway, children on a school bus—with no cars involved," it unex
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