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Reminds me of an aggravating feature (or really lack thereof) in my new Prius. It has wireless charging, but requires a cable connection for CarPlay. I hope I
by dhosek 4y ago
Reminds me of an aggravating feature (or really lack thereof) in my new Prius. It has wireless charging, but requires a cable connection for CarPlay.
I hope I never meet a Toyota engineer in person, because it would be hard not to do something criminal to them.
- TimTheTinker 4y agoWait, iPhones support CarPlay without a cable?
- LeoPanthera 4y agoYes, it's called Wireless CarPlay. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205634 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205634
- luisrudge 4y agoNot all cars support that, though. Due to licensing or tech, some cars (even new ones) only support Apple car with a cable (my case). I bought a wireless adapter on Amazon and it works seamlessly.
- fazfq 4y agoA wireless adapter that lets you use wireless carplay on a car that doesn't have it? Could you please post a link?
- dhosek 4y agoI bought this one that’s arriving tomorrow. I’ll write up a review of it once I’ve used it a while. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0B8RKXK9R/donhosek http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0B8RKXK9R/donhosek
- izacus 4y agoYeah,both CarPlay and Android Auto have wireless support these days. You can buy wireless CarPlay/Auto USB dongles for cars that only support cable.
- sand500 4y agoThat's just the usual features taking a while to come to Toyota.
- dhosek 4y agoIt’s just a crazy order to add things. Qi charger for a phone that you would want plugged in to properly use.
- pkulak 4y agoYou’re mad that Toyota didn’t include an extra WiFi radio in your car, so that you can be more conveniently distracted by text messages and speed trap warnings, in the same thread where everyone else thinks that electric starters ruined cars forever?
- kayodelycaon 4y agoMost people mount their phones someplace in their line of sight. If anything, car play is less distracting than a phone.
- dhosek 4y agoCarplay lets me use the car to control audio with the car controls instead of the phone. That’s a big non-distractor. Your comment tells me that you have never actually used CarPlay (and perhaps that Android Auto is not so good—I wouldn’t know, I always assumed it was roughly equivalent to CarPlay in features and functionality). My phone doesn’t notify me about text messages when I’m driving and with the Prius, if I want navigation, CarPlay is the thing. Having the nav on the big display instead of the little display (which would be well out of the normal peripheral line of sight if it’s sitting on the wireless charger) is again an improvement in safety.
- knifie_spoonie 4y agoKeep in my that a manager made that decision, not one of the engineers doing the hands-on work.
- bmitc 4y agoThat's a cop out. The engineers can say no. Many managers are former engineers anyway.