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Re:Apple's risky bet on CarPlay by beagle3 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @08:37AM (#40143635)
Phones also use WiFi access points and some Bluetooth beacons to get a better location. AFAIK only Google and Apple have up-to-date maps of these that are useful for navigation, and no one else does (Mozilla threw the towel a year or two ago).

Cars can theoretically have better GPS antennae, and can do better dead reckoning using wheel position and wheel rotation speed. But do they? I haven’t seen any evidence that any car actually does better than a modern phone.

Especially inside a dense city, WiFi location can be much more precise than GPS.

Re:Apple's risky bet on CarPlay by katbyte on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @10:47AM (#40145022)
i only really care about accurate when off-roading in the middle of nowhere with no reception and recording my track - my iphone performs far better when unplugged from the truck then when plugged into it.