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Originally Posted by Hatman
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2) Advertisers paying extra to have your car routed past their business. I cannot see this happening at all. My logic is this: How many billboards to you see along rail transit routes? Zero, because passengers in a train (or bus - or autonomous car) are not looking out the windows.
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While a lot of people are occupied with phones/books/whatever, a lot do look out the windows, and there are some billboards along rail routes in Chicago. The reasons there aren't more are probably more associated with these reasons:
1) Frequency of service - some commuter rail routes have pretty low frequency of service
2) Sightlines - even on high-frequency routes, it can be hard to locate a billboard in a place where it can be read from a train.
3) Use permits - local regulations about advertising sometimes prevent the construction of billboards in areas that would otherwise be effective.