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I think your assessment is spot on. CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm

by mstade 7y ago

I think your assessment is spot on. CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm driving. The only car interfaces I like that aren't CarPlay are all buttons and dials, i.e. pre smart phone era cars, and even then only a handful really made sense to me.

navigatesol 7y ago
>CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm driving. Curious, do you own a car, or are you renting them? Maybe that's why some people are such advocates for the Apple/Android interfaces: when you're driving different cars regularly it's helpful to have a consistent interface. Meanwhile, I have never had any problem "getting used to" the various interfaces in new cars I purchase every few years.
- mstade 7y ago
  > Curious, do you own a car, or are you renting them? I rent. Living centrally in a major city owning a car is more trouble than it's worth I find. Consistency is definitely one of the prime reasons I prefer CarPlay. I feel CarPlay is really dumb, and that's a good thing. There aren't really that many things I want from my car interface, beyond temperature and music control, and navigation. Of those only the latter two would be controlled in CarPlay, and it works really well – better than any other interface I've used. It doesn't try to be fancy, have a bunch of useless animations or weird interaction. There's also no dragging anywhere, or at least not that I've seen – only simple pointing. Trying to drag a slider to change temperature in one of the newer Volvos is an absolute pain. If I spent more than a week or two with the car, maybe I'd care to learn more about its interface, but I almost never do. So you're absolutely spot on with your reflection, at least in my case – consistency is key.
- jsight 7y ago
  I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface, but almost everything about the nav system on Android Auto is better than the builtin one. AFAIK, one of the main feature requests for Tesla is to add Android Auto. Its one of those things that is annoying to go without, once you've had it available for a while.
  - brokenmachine 7y ago
    >I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface Google must have about 100Gb of recordings of me saying, "OK Google, no, fuck, OK beep, OK Google... fuck, what was I doing again?"
    - jsight 7y ago
      Yeah, its crazy how mediocre it can be and still better than the stock interface. If Nissan kept recordings, they'd have several even worse recordings. Long sequences that fail on the last step are really common.

by mstade 7y ago

navigatesol 7y ago

>CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm driving. Curious, do you own a car, or are you renting them? Maybe that's why some people are such advocates for the Apple/Android interfaces: when you're driving different cars regularly it's helpful to have a consistent interface. Meanwhile, I have never had any problem "getting used to" the various interfaces in new cars I purchase every few years.

mstade 7y ago
> Curious, do you own a car, or are you renting them? I rent. Living centrally in a major city owning a car is more trouble than it's worth I find. Consistency is definitely one of the prime reasons I prefer CarPlay. I feel CarPlay is really dumb, and that's a good thing. There aren't really that many things I want from my car interface, beyond temperature and music control, and navigation. Of those only the latter two would be controlled in CarPlay, and it works really well – better than any other interface I've used. It doesn't try to be fancy, have a bunch of useless animations or weird interaction. There's also no dragging anywhere, or at least not that I've seen – only simple pointing. Trying to drag a slider to change temperature in one of the newer Volvos is an absolute pain. If I spent more than a week or two with the car, maybe I'd care to learn more about its interface, but I almost never do. So you're absolutely spot on with your reflection, at least in my case – consistency is key.
jsight 7y ago
I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface, but almost everything about the nav system on Android Auto is better than the builtin one. AFAIK, one of the main feature requests for Tesla is to add Android Auto. Its one of those things that is annoying to go without, once you've had it available for a while.
- brokenmachine 7y ago
  >I own a car with Android Auto and I use it all of the time. The biggest benefit is the voice interface Google must have about 100Gb of recordings of me saying, "OK Google, no, fuck, OK beep, OK Google... fuck, what was I doing again?"
  - jsight 7y ago
    Yeah, its crazy how mediocre it can be and still better than the stock interface. If Nissan kept recordings, they'd have several even worse recordings. Long sequences that fail on the last step are really common.