It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World

I was driving on the Beltway, recently, looking at the back of someone's car.

Mostly, people put their own ads on the car. The occasional person, having gone to the dealer, might have a dealer name on a license plate holder, letting other people know where you got your car, say, at a local Sport Honda.

It got me to thinking.

We've got ads on television. What if companies paid people to have ads on their cars? Would people do it? Given the amount of traffic, and the amount of time it takes to get to work, would people put ads on their car?

Right now, we think of our car as an extension of who we are. Are we willing to put ourselves out to the highest bidder.

Of course, it would increase the eyesore on the road. Already, people spend a lot of money on a car that they want to be proud of. Would they shamefully put ads on it?

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