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watson387 ,
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They aren’t wrong. Touch controls in a car are a nuisance.

YurkshireLad ,

My car is a 2017 and its entertainment system hasn’t been update since then. I don’t want to pay the $250 to upgrade it or whatever the crazy price was.

GrindingGears ,

My personal car (the second, mostly unused car in our family) is from 2016, and it has nav and everything, but it looks like it’s a commodore. It’s also woefully out of date, my house is in the middle of a cornfield according to my car. Literally unusable, and was pretty much right out of the gates even. Doesn’t work very well with my phone, I’m still able to stream Spotify and skip songs or whatever, but guess how I have to control it? The phone hooked to the cord and sitting on my seat.

My wife’s car, I don’t even think I’ve ever used the navigation. I’m not even really sure how her radio works come to think of it, because it just switches to Android Auto when I start it, and whatever I was doing on my phone, well it’s right there. Spotify starts up, and on the way we go. Don’t even look at it most of the time, if I’m being honest. Super unsafe for sure, the proprietary solution is for sure better (/s)

gregorum ,

“It’s unsafe for Apple and Android to prevent us from monopolizing your user data!”

indigomirage ,

They are doing it to light up revenue streams.

kusivittula ,

literally any change or a new feature in any product of any company is only about collecting and selling your data, and never about making something actually better.

neocamel ,

Yep beware, any time a company you do business with sends you a letter saying something like,

“Good news! (Our old company name) is now (new company name)!”

You’re about to get fucked.

charlybones ,

They’re going about this all wrong.

Apple car is not the issue. It’s all the other touch inputs that I have on my car to control every basic function like the climate controls and other shit.

Apple car switches on, already the navigation is setup and the music is on… I don’t need to touch it again. I can switch songs on my steering wheel and I can ask Siri for basic shit like finding a playlist.

I don’t need to go through a touch menu or button to change the temperature or any other action setting while in motion.

gregorum ,

in fact, much of CarPlay’s functionality becomes locked while the car is in motion, making that a moot point anyway, lol. the only things left to distract or endanger would be the OEM stuff, as you mention.

HeartyBeast ,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

The one unsafe thing in car play for me is the tiny stupid UI element needed to switch betweeen voice directions/alerts only/silent/.

I will quite often want to switch modes while on a long journey - full directions while driving on backstreets, alerts only while on motorways.

Have yet to find the Siri command to switch between them. Anyone know of one?

gregorum ,

i don’t use it enough to know, but i think the UI varies a little between vehicles and models, so it may not be in the same spot for everyone-- or even look exactly the same.

as for a Siri command, you may try something like, “Set my notifications to…” or something like that.

charlybones ,

I mostly use Waze for navigation. And the alerts button setting is pretty small. However I find that just having it on alerts is enough for day to day use.

It’s true that for new routes I do enable the full guided voice assist

BlueLineBae ,
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

Bold claim when you remember all of the horrific UI that car manufacturers utilized before everyone started using Apple and Google’s UI. Sometimes I have to borrow an old car from someone and you just can’t find anything. Really, I’m more in favor of bringing back physical buttons for all basic functions, but a good UI will not only make it quick and easy to say change to the next song or view trip details, but it will also prevent you from performing more complicated tasks while in motion. We’ll see what GM’s solution is, but I have little faith.

Juno ,

Physical buttons are things I don’t have to look at when I’m driving. That’s good.

helenslunch ,
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In my opinion there is a balance, where things you use commonly while driving are physical controls, and everything else is touch screen. But it seems like literally no one knows how to do this.

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