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They recently showed a video of some vaporware where their car software powers every screen in a car, including the speedo and stuff like that. So they might be
by mcintyre1994 4y ago
They recently showed a video of some vaporware where their car software powers every screen in a car, including the speedo and stuff like that. So they might be thinking along the same lines.
- dagmx 4y agoNot exactly vapourware since it’s announced as supporting cars at the end of 2023, though it still runs off of your phone
- sneak 4y agoSo if your phone overheats in the sun, or crashes, your instrument cluster freezes? Note also that CarPlay does not work at all with Siri disabled. This means that if you don’t opt in to a hot mic you can’t use any of it.
- awinder 4y ago1. Reverts to the standard vehicle interface 2. Siri is activated by user input (holding a button / pressing a button in-car) with a side feature for hot mic (hey siri) that’s disabled by default 3. Maybe there’s car implementation solely driven by Siri? Hondas is touch screen and Mazda is button/knob based (and touch screen but only when idle).
- sneak 4y agoNo, you literally get an error on the display if you have Siri disabled systemwide and try to use CarPlay.
- dagmx 4y agoThe cars will presumably fallback to native clusters when the phone stops responding. It’s still too early to tell though, but they are a very safety conscious company so I assume that people have thought about contingencies before making themselves liable. At the least it likely won’t be worse than the multitude of cars that have moved to digital clusters anyway and may freeze themselves. The claim of Carplay not working without Siri is also incorrect. A quick Google search shows you can disable Siri but will be limited in what you can do https://stereoupgrade.com/how-to-use-carplay-without-siri/ https://stereoupgrade.com/how-to-use-carplay-without-siri/ since the goal is hands free use. Lastly most newer iPhones do on device Siri processing for common commands so it’s not really a privacy issue.
- jdhn 4y agoWhy do you consider it vaporware? It's not like Apple is some sort of Nikola that uses smokes and mirrors to obfuscate its abilities, CarPlay is in millions of cars and will only grow as people trade in older cars.
- mcintyre1994 4y agoI wasn’t really trying to imply anything to be honest, I just consider all demos vapourware until they ship. I would say that Apple aren’t immune, eg with AirPower - that demo looked at least as real as the car one. But I do agree that Apple tend to ship their stuff and probably will ship something like what they demoed.
- ErneX 4y agoThat’s the next version of CarPlay.
- wwalexander 4y agoIf that ends up being vaporware I’ll eat my hat.