Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by capableweb on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:45AM (#28478800)

Hear hear! Cars and technology has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to safety. For example, I recently changed from Android to iOS for a better driving experience (I thought) since Android Auto was a bit laggy. While CarPlay is more fluid seemingly (which could also be from the hardware upgrade), what's worse is the UX downgrade that happen when I went from Android Auto to CarPlay.

I have a million of examples where the UX sucks, but I discovered something downright dangerous (and should possibly even be illegal): If you're using Google Maps/Waze for navigation and you receive a call, then the entire screen gets covered with the phone number and the answer button, while you're driving and using the navigation! Absolutely bonkers how somebody thought it was a good idea.

Never before have it been as clear that the people building these things (like CarPlay) never actually tried to use their own stuff.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by Too on Saturday September 11, 2021 @03:37AM (#28490105)

Carplay tries to be too safe by not allowing anything while driving. Instead this leads you into spending more attention on the screen - searching for buttons you thought should exist but simply don't.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by chrisbennet on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:57AM (#28480298)

I use Waze (on the iPhone) and it doesn't have that problem.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by capableweb on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:39PM (#28487201)

I normally use both Waze and Google Maps, have this problem happening all the time, although it was a long time ago I drove now so maybe got fixed in the last month or so? I have a iPhone 12 Mini if that bears any difference.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by jvdvegt on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:49AM (#28483208)

my car doesn't have Android Auto, so I have my Google-phone in a phone holder. It has the exact same problem: calls have precedence over navigation. Bonkers!

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