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>it also hides many factors (I'm not gonna buy a new car if I don't know how to drive, even if I see ads for cars every day).

Well, that's kinda obvious. It works in making you more prone to go for a brand/product. It doesn't miraculously make you buy it every time.

That said, after having seen enough ads of happy people in cars, and more car ads, and yet more car ads, more people would be entertaining the idea "perhaps it's time to learn how to drive and buy a car" than before.




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