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I have a related question. If I get into a car (especially one loaned for a day), shouldn't I be able to connect to the car with Bluetooth, and then have car s
by anywherenotes 12y ago
I have a related question.
If I get into a car (especially one loaned for a day), shouldn't I be able to connect to the car with Bluetooth, and then have car settings for at least the radio come up on the phone? So for example if I want button1 to be station 123, all I'd have to do is sync those settings against phone.
I guess the question is, if I have a smart phone, why do I still need to use car-interface to set up buttons for radio? Why can't there be apps that remember settings and update them automatically. With such apps, you could configure your car to play kid-friendly radio when you drive kids to school, and your favorite channel on your way to work. You wouldn't have issues switching between your and spouse's car (different settings, and maybe they reset radio or dealer changed battery and reset radio).
(or maybe this is all available on better cars than I own)
- rco8786 12y agoThis would require the phone/app to know and be able to reconcile all the different configuration and communication schemas for all the different makes/models of cars AND for the cars themselves to publish what amounts to an API to allow for this sort of interaction. Nobody wants to do that sort of work on the phone side, and the car manufacturers really have no incentive to provide an API especially since they use their interfaces as selling points (BMW's iDrive, Tesla's 60" screen, etc).