[Drumlin]

It somehow reminds me of those advert bars that people used to put on their desktops and be paid to view adverts in the late 90s - early 2000s. There was so much money in online advertising back then that businesses created referral pyramids based on it.

It also reminds me of those daily deal websites like Groupon, which were controversial yet hyped. That was back when there was a lot of money in 'hyper' local services.

Now there's a load of hype in self driving cars, the problem is the technology is probably decades away. It's just the latest hype in a new cycle. Local taxi services will take up the slack once the investment dries up.

[ec109685]

Way more money is spent advertising online now than in the 90s and early 2000s. The delivery mechanism has simply been optimized and figured out.