GM had a similar commercial once... a kid in a red Corvette. The kid drove the car all over a major city, then after going off a jump, while in the air, he sees a cute girl (presumably from his school class) going through the air in the opposite direction in a silver Vette. After landing from the jump, we return to reality and see him standing in front of a red Corvette with his skateboard.
The ad took a couple months to create, and was pulled within days due to similar concerns as this Hyundai ad.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS?! IT'S FANTASY ON TELEVISION! IT ISN'T REAL!
...are slowly being adopted by corporations. I work for a Fortune 500 in Corporate IT and two new locations in Northern VA both got brand new Nortel VoIP PBXes in them. They run completely IP-based back to another NoVA location, where the calls are then routed based on their destinations. These two locations are two of the first to have this kind of system for our company in the National Capital Area, according to Corporate Telecom. The company, however, has used VoIP with traditional PBXes between the major regional locations, as well as overseas, for over a year now.
The IP network the phones are on, though, is completely separate from the corporate LAN/WAN, with the only link (that I know of - I didn't design the network or anything) between the two being the Voicemail server, which can be accessed either via the phone (duh) or through Outlook with Nortel's CallPilot MAPI service.
I happen to work in one of the locations, and it's great because I can dial 5 digits to reach anyone else in this network, including our regional HQ out here. It's time-saving (not that dialing twice as many digits takes that much longer, but every second counts yanno), plus the person I'm calling can see who it is calling them, as the system (usually) has a name associated with each extension. And I can also see if I've misdialed, because I'll see a different name than I would be expecting to see.
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GM had a similar commercial once... a kid in a red Corvette. The kid drove the car all over a major city, then after going off a jump, while in the air, he sees a cute girl (presumably from his school class) going through the air in the opposite direction in a silver Vette. After landing from the jump, we return to reality and see him standing in front of a red Corvette with his skateboard.
The ad took a couple months to create, and was pulled within days due to similar concerns as this Hyundai ad.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS?! IT'S FANTASY ON TELEVISION! IT ISN'T REAL!
...are slowly being adopted by corporations. I work for a Fortune 500 in Corporate IT and two new locations in Northern VA both got brand new Nortel VoIP PBXes in them. They run completely IP-based back to another NoVA location, where the calls are then routed based on their destinations. These two locations are two of the first to have this kind of system for our company in the National Capital Area, according to Corporate Telecom. The company, however, has used VoIP with traditional PBXes between the major regional locations, as well as overseas, for over a year now.
The IP network the phones are on, though, is completely separate from the corporate LAN/WAN, with the only link (that I know of - I didn't design the network or anything) between the two being the Voicemail server, which can be accessed either via the phone (duh) or through Outlook with Nortel's CallPilot MAPI service.
I happen to work in one of the locations, and it's great because I can dial 5 digits to reach anyone else in this network, including our regional HQ out here. It's time-saving (not that dialing twice as many digits takes that much longer, but every second counts yanno), plus the person I'm calling can see who it is calling them, as the system (usually) has a name associated with each extension. And I can also see if I've misdialed, because I'll see a different name than I would be expecting to see.