Re:Apple and Google Are Taking over the In-Car User Experience
by xrayarx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:30AM
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If anybody working on this, is reading this: please think of the option to put rear few mirrors or rear view cameras on these screens, so we can get finally rid of the “normal” mirrors.
Re:Apple and Google Are Taking over the In-Car User Experience
by jleyank on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:13AM
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Normal mirrors don’t break, so why introduce single point of failures in a currently distributed system? My cars last 8-10 years, while my tablets last 3-5. Unless the new, fancy stuff is swappable there’s going to be a whole lot of dead glass driving about the highways. And without the tactile feedback of traditional buttons it’s bloody difficult to turn things on/off without looking down.
Re:Apple and Google Are Taking over the In-Car User Experience
by al2o3cr on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:15AM
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IMO this omits the biggest factor: because most car manufacturers are absolutely AWFUL at building software that works well.
I've got a Honda that's one model year too old to support CarPlay. It instead only supports "HondaLink", an epic hack involving a simultaneous USB + HDMI connection (yay dongle /s) and hacktacular apps written with PhoneGap that barely work and wouldn't get a passing grade in Babby's First App Design course. The apps haven't seen an update in years.
I've got a Honda that's one model year too old to support CarPlay. It instead only supports "HondaLink", an epic hack involving a simultaneous USB + HDMI connection (yay dongle /s) and hacktacular apps written with PhoneGap that barely work and wouldn't get a passing grade in Babby's First App Design course. The apps haven't seen an update in years.