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The dashboard test: Arrive from a long flight at night at the airport, get a car rental, attempt to operate the buttons to enter the gps address of the hotel an
by javier_e06 3y ago
The dashboard test:
Arrive from a long flight at night at the airport, get a car rental, attempt to
operate the buttons to enter the gps address of the hotel and turn
on the headlights on before exiting the parking lot.
The last time, my 2020 Lexus SUV insisted that I needed to download the
Lexus App to my phone before I could access navigation tools in the dashboard.
This was a luxury car for chris sake.
Cars today are victims of the Nokia feature curse. A bunch of features (calendar, reminders ) that nobody used during the flip-phone era. But you had to have the darn feature in order to compete weather people use it or not.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThis test is now does the car have a screen compatible with CarPlay/Android Auto. I don’t ever want to be entering an address into a car’s infotainment again.
- sorum 3y agoHow GM thinks removing CarPlay and Android Auto is a strategically beneficial move, is mind boggling. I literally can't imagine how the reasoning happened, except for some really strong-willed exec with a lot of political power pushed it through. Can't wait for the post-mortem analysis in 10 years.
- itomato 3y agoInstead of working with their software vendor, some VP took their edge case for battery and charge integration as a reason to commit seppuku.
- bluGill 3y agoThe terms to car makers for this stuff isn't always nice to car makers. I'm under NDA here so I can't say more.
- ghaff 3y agoThat may be true but it's close to a dealbreaker for me and presumably a lot of other people. Not that I'd probably buy a GM vehicle anyway.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoNot my problem. And if the terms are so bad, then car makers have a simple solution. Make it easy to swap in a CarPlay compatible third party headunit.
- phpisthebest 3y agoYes because the phone companies do not allow the car makers to spy on me, which they should not be doing anyway.. Sorry that is not something i am going to cry for GM over
- avisser 3y agoAgreed. At this point, if I need GPS, I've probably looked at the map before I get in the car. Love that when I start Google Maps in on CarPlay, the first thing it asks is if I want to navigate to PLACE_I_JUST_SEARCHED_FOR. Hell yeah I do.
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- ta1243 3y agoThe car has carplay (or androidauto), apple/google/whatever maps will take me where I want to go, same as it does in any car. If the car didn't have car play I'd refuse to take it as it's clearly faulty. I can't remember the last time I had a rental car without those features.
- mleo 3y agoAnd best if connecting the system to CarPlay is straightforward. We have a Jeep rental while car is getting repaired. It took looking up online and digging through several levels of ui to get the system to connect to the phone. While this is generally a once every year or two, for fleet sales, it is painful.
- ta1243 3y agoI've almost always had a plug in usb press "ok" method, no matter what the manufacturer. Sometimes I have to press the "carplay" icon on the screen, but it's quite rare The bigger problem is that some cars are USB-C and some are USB-A. I have both cables in my bag though. I don't bother with wireless car play as my phone always needs charging anyway.
- ghaff 3y ago>but it's quite rare I have to select CarPlay on the Honda I bought last year so it can't be that rare.
- javier_e06 3y agoI have a Hyundai Santa Fe. It pairs my Android Phone as soon as the car starts and the Google Maps pops on the screen. Zero fumbling. Except when a member of the family Iphone is nearby. Then the Iphone bullies my Android and pairs first.
- ghaff 3y agoMy Honda actually has wireless charging for my iPhone but I have to plug it in for CarPlay so I basically never use the wireless charging.
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- ListeningPie 3y agowhether not weather.