Hitler and Mercedes Benz

[Blarg]

Pretty cool student ad about Mercedes new accident technology.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14a1OVp4fao

 

 

Their lawyers decided to only require disclaimers on the video rather than challenge the distribution. Mercedes Benz employed slave labor to build aircraft and tank engines for the Nazis in WWII. I guess they decided to let the fake ad work for them as revisionist history since Hitler's staff car was a Mercedes.

 

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Edited April 6, 2014 by Eric Notti

[ABC]

I get it and I don't.

[Blarg]

It is a student film that takes Mercedes claim to having safety features that prevent a catastrophe and takes it to the logical (albeit unbelievable) end.

It is a play on the question of if you could go back in time would you kill Hitler before he came to power and in this case, how far back do you have to go? If given an option to run him over as a kid I would back over him just to make sure.

[TobiasFunke]

The Butterfly Effect was a good movie.

[ABC]

It is a student film that takes Mercedes claim to having safety features that prevent a catastrophe and takes it to the logical (albeit unbelievable) end.

It is a play on the question of if you could go back in time would you kill Hitler before he came to power and in this case, how far back do you have to go? If given an option to run him over as a kid I would back over him just to make sure.

 

I have distronic plus, collision prevention, etc so I am familiar with the tech. Beyond the Hitler tie-in, I'm surprised MB is fine with showing the tech malfunction. They may have figured that fighting distribution will only make it more viral.

[gotbeer]

That was funny.  No wonder Adolph grew up to be such an angry man.  To be a victim of hit and run.  Guy probably didn't have insurance and was drunk to drive off like that.