New and Noted June 7, 2019

Nice article at Mass Transit about how Smartlink’s controllers manage lights at bus shelters.  In addition to monitoring displays Smartlink controllers can control lights, monitor if a solar-powered battery is charged and ping a transit operator to make a maintenance call when a light goes out.  Smartlink controllers can do the same thing for your billboard lights.

US News takes a bearish view on autonomous cars in 5 reasons why self-driving vehicles aren’t coming to your city anytime soon.  There’s a good reason most autonomous car experiments happen in Arizona and California.  Weather’s a big obstacle.  Snow, rain, fog and sandstorms mess up laser sensors.

Billboard Lenders are few and far between.  Two banks registered for the 2019 OAAA show.  US Bank was one.  The other was  Metro Phoenix Bank which recently closed a out of home advertising loan to Texas based Boulevard Media Company.   Metro has been in the out of home lending market since 2009.

Next time a politician tells you that billboards aren’t speech point them to this  GoFundMe page  which the Animal Protection League of New Jersey is using to raise money to purchase billboards to promote its cause.

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