Did anyone see, or better yet, get a copy of the Caddy commercial shown during the Oscars Sunday night showing the Escalade dodging 2 trains at a crossing?
Mike,
I wi***hey would make those idiots pay for the damage they cause to the RR after one of those. In my opinion, they should take that guys drivers license away until he can write out long hand the calculations to show the stopping distance for a train, the economic analysis of requiring trains to be subservient (sp?) to passenger cars and a paper on the psychological effects on a worker who has to endure the vision of an idiot throwing their life away under their piece of heavy equipment. Clearly, most would never get their license back in ‘my world’.
I have never seen a train vs auto collision but one happened within three miles of my house. A NS mixed freight was comming from the West across a road. The road was protected by flashing lights. The engineer was blowing the horn. Cars were stopped three or four deep already at the crossing. A lady with a three year old in the back wedged her way between two lanes of the waiting cars and gunned the engine to cross before the train. The train caught her back bumper, tore it off and spun the car around. I guess she was unable to leave the scene. When the police arrived she said ‘I didn’t hear the train, I guess I was playing the radio too loud and my window was up.’ Makes me sick!
Ed
Stupid idea for a commercial.All we need are more cars trying to beat the trains going through a crossing.This is the highest mortality rate involved with the roads.This commercial should be pulled from the air.That`s it! No new Caddilac for me,even if I could afford one.Trains are a little cheaper! horailfan
Cheaper how.What does a superliner cost compaired to a automobile.
Yes, very stupid–think about how many people woll get killed or seriously injured because of GM (EMD!!)'s crazy ideas to sell Caddys–I wonder what GM was thinking–Show off that their locomotives have no gumption?? or show that Cadillacs are that agile??–I’ll stick with a Lincoln, thank you.
Didn’t see the commercial because I refused to watch the farce they call the oscar presentations but this sure doesn’t sound like a great way to promote crossing safety.
I did not see this.What the hey was they thinking? People,as well as youth will see this act of lunacy and will say I can do that! Then some poor fool will try that one time to many and will be wrap around the front of a locomotive or even impelled on the coupler.Lawers will have a field day with sueing the railroad and the real villain will get off scott free.The lunatic that did not beat the train will be just as dead.Just think they saw it on T.V. produce by GM (they had to ok it)! What wrong with this picture?
Ok! So now folks will think a train will stop to watch a Caddy go by! I think not! More bloody ties in the making.
I didn’t see the commercial, but I have to agree.
It seems, of late, GM designers have their head…
… definetly not in the studio working. They
got more ugly things besides Caddy’s.
I did see it and I think the intent was that the engineers stopped their trains at the crossing to wait for the Caddy to cross so they could watch it. The engineers were sitting in the cab, looking out the window, looking at their watches; then after the car goes by, they blow their air horns and fire up the locos.
Sounds like something from a typical tinsel town commercial. Head in the clouds floating around in la-la land. As if the engineers will have time to stop the train and watch the ugly caddy go by. Probably driven by two blind people too.
The commercial is beyond dumb! In fact inensitive and stupid can not adequately describe it. This past Saturday I went to my Cadilac and cancelled my order for the last car that I planned on purchasing before I pull the pin on this mortal earth. When I told the saleman why he almost had a accident ( 
)I He asked what he could do to make things right. I told him to tell his General Manager to contact the GM advertising department and pass on my rather profane comments.
You ARE A Locomotive engineer have you ever hit a M60 TANK.Somebody said it would derail it and the tank would keep on going.
I didn’t see the comercial but I wish I did. Can any one tell me what type of power and paint scheme was used? Lets face it,most commercials are silly or phony and some are stupid and unreal. I believe most people already know this. I don’t think a silly commercial will make people think they can drive on the tracks and be able to stop a train. Most everyone is aware of the power and force of a train. We see it on the news quite often. Yet every day all across this county people try to beat the train only because of their own ignorance and not because they saw a silly commercial.
It looked to me as if the trains were waiting on the Caddy for their own safety in contrast to reality where we wait on trains for our safety. It’s just one of those exagerations typical of an ad agency intended to leave an impression on the public. I think it is effective in that most people remember they saw a comercial for a Caddy. I think it is kinda stupid, but I’d never buy a Caddy anyway.
Is it any dumber than Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
The commercial is still running - saw it yesterday (Sun) on either Fox News or The History Channel.
I think they did intend to porteay the trains waiting for the Caillac but totally blew the effect. (Stopped with couplers sticking out into the road? Trains going twenty miles an hour a few carlengths past the crossing!)
At least she is better looking!
Len,
Better looking than a Caddy or a MU group of GMs?
I’m married so I’m not allowed to look. - Ed
So am I which means I can only look. Apparently the FRA thinks the ad is pretty stupid too. Saw an article in the transportation section of the paper last week stating that they have contacted GM and requested that the ad be pulled.
I am surprised that thr FRA wanted to use their clout for something a trivial as that. Even though the comercial drives us up a wall, 99.9% of America probably doesn’t know the difference. It is a stupid ad for all the reasons given above.
Ed