Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station

Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si... by duxup on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:59AM (#30274954)

I had a rental with Apple CarPlay, it worked well but I still got the impression that the system in the car played a big part... it was an interface but I'm not sure it wad driven by my phone. That of course means it could be at the whim of some silly car infotainment type setup. At least that's the impression I got.

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Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si... by jaywalk on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:39PM (#30275493)

It's 100% driven by your phone, what you're seeing is just a video stream from the phone. The infotainment system essentially acts as a dumb terminal. The phone feeds it video, and it feeds the phone X,Y touch coordinates. It also feeds the phone some data about the car, but there is no way for the car to directly modify the interface since it's literally just a video stream.

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Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si... by duxup on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:46PM (#30275582)

TY, I didn't know that. Thank you.

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Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si... by aczerepinski on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:53PM (#30275695)

But some of the car companies are trying to charge a subscription for it anyway if I recall correctly?

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Re:Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a si... by jaywalk on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:02PM (#30275839)

Some car companies are trying to charge a subscription fee for heated seats, too. They obviously control whether it's enabled or disabled, but my point was that when you're using it the car doesn't control the interface.

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