{
  "id": 600750,
  "title": "Alex Micek on BMW’s iDrive ‘Special Surprises’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/alex-micek-on-bmws-idrive-special-surprises",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T19:56:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daring Fireball",
    "slug": "daring-fireball",
    "url": "https://tumbledry.org/2026/08/07/idrive_ads"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Alex Micek: In the future, I will feel angry if my car strands me on the side of the road. I will feel angry if the motor brushes fail expectedly. I will feel angry if it leaks water. By contrast, I don’t feel anger when the car tricks me into seeing an advertisement. Instead, I feel a deep, smothering, let-down at the promise of futurism. Bottomless despair is probably inappropriate; a symptom…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}