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>CarPlay is amazingly good, and only really works well with a touchscreen. >At this point, it would be very hard for me to buy a car that didn't have CarPlay in
by joking 7y ago
>CarPlay is amazingly good, and only really works well with a touchscreen.
>At this point, it would be very hard for me to buy a car that didn't have CarPlay integration with a touchscreen. I've seen implementations without touch, and they're much, much less useful.
Well, maybe the solution is to make apple carplay and android auto to work well with a dpad and buttons configuration, those interfaces have been working perfectly for videoconsoles and tvs, and a car system is more similar to that than to a phone.
Actually the system works well, and it's designed for that, And as the test confirm, using the touchscreen while driving is dangerous. The same that you can't use a video app while driving, the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving.
- basch 7y agoAcura is introducing a touchpad, with absolute, not relative, cursor positioning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKa9apjOX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKa9apjOX8 It reminds me of the PSP/PSV having a touchpad on the back of the screen.
- cptskippy 7y agoThey have physical controls for climate control and opted for nondescript buttons instead of knobs. Truly brilliant...
- dman 7y agoThis really saddens me. My 2010 Acura has controls that I really like, almost everything is a physical button/knob that I can hit without taking my eyes off the road.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoAndroid Auto actually works quite well with Audi's jog wheel thing. The 2018 Q5 I rented last year had no touch screen, just this knob. Worked totally fine and required no touching a screen.
- ihuman 7y ago> those interfaces have been working perfectly for videoconsoles and tvs Is this a joke? I find navigating my TV's menus with a remote to be the most infuriating part of using a TV.
- Mtinie 7y agoPersonally I don’t mind using a remote to navigate menus; dedicated, physical buttons can in many cases make things easier. What I absolutely despise, however, is the latency between said button presses and the actual acknowledgment on-screen. In my experience, the latency on cable TV boxes, Smart TVs, and in-flight entertainment systems has progressively gotten worse, not better over the years. This latency, when coupled with a car’s touch screen is even worse.
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- chipotle_coyote 7y agoCarPlay works with physical controls; it doesn't require a touch screen. (As another commenter noted, the same is true of Android Auto.)
- ubermonkey 7y agoTrue. It's just generally better with one.
- ubermonkey 7y ago>the touchscreen should be disables while the car is moving LOLNO. Not everyone is driving alone.
- fishywang 7y agoI don't know about CarPlay but Android Auto works good enough with knob controls. I have a 2014 Mazda3, which Mazda offered Android Auto/CarPlay upgrade for a fee earlier this year and I upgraded. My car has a touchscreen, but disables all touch features above a certain speed (5 or 10 mph I think). I don't think I'm really missing anything on Android Auto without touch.
- brokenmachine 7y agoI hate that kind of nanny stuff, what if you have a passenger and they can control it? Does it also have a stupid screen that pops up every time you start the car saying, "don't use this while driving", or some such nonsense?