A Canadian source of mine says they're going to pull the campaign. (Apparently the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation (for the Winter Olympics) had a word to GM--their logo is at the bottom of the ad.)
I dislike the ad, although I suppose it isn't "wrong"--it's more a rough commercial equivalent of negative political advertising I suppose.
(By the way, I didn't read it as saying that all, or even many, public transport users were creeps and weirdos.)
Well, it says that using public transport == suffering the attentions of creeps and weirdos.
Yes, the ad asserts there's a greater chance of that happening on PT, but this also happens to be true, don't you think?!
Not to an intolerable extent. And besides that point, there's something very antisocial about encouraging single-occupant vehicle travel through spreading fear of other people. Something right out of the paranoid, gated-community America of Mark Davis and Michael Moore.
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Tue Mar 25 15:48:41 2003
er, correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't adverts intended to make people wish to have your product/service for themselves? twits. :P