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TIL a Land Rover commercial was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority because it had sounds of beeping parking sensors as a Land Rover backs up closer to the edge of a cliff. Two viewers had submitted complaints because the SUV's rear parking sensors were not capable of detecting cliff edges

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