Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱Mar 13

I was doing some research for a video and randomly came across this image from GM, which was on a page to promote the benefits of electric vehicles.

This image is obviously photoshopped, but look at this place. It's prime waterfront land, directly across the river from a city, and it's being shown as a featureless asphalt surface.

Even in their "optimistic" visions of the future, car companies' vision for cities is shit.

Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱Mar 13

The actual location of where this "photo" would've been taken is Windsor, Ontario, Canada, across the river from Detroit (with the headquarters of GM shown in the background):

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hYTKmR75WWHg4sto7

Windsor is pretty shitty, because it was also a "motor city", but at least it's not quite as dystopian as GM makes it look in this photoshopped image.

Bevor Sie zu Google Maps weitergehen

Show threadNot Just Bikes 🇳🇱Mar 13
Here's a less-dystopian image of what this area actually looks like (from Google Maps).
Show threadpetes_bread_eqn_xlsMar 13
@notjustbikes is it a weird perspective or is that Canadian flag as big as American flags at car dealerships?
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls
Its a very large flag meant to be visible from across the river.
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Mar 13 at 4:57pmWeb