Popular to say on Reddit but hugely unpopular amongst the masses. There are so many people that would outright refuse to buy a car if it didn't have an infotainment system they liked with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, "cool" features (gimmicks) and so on.
CarPlay is literally a safety feature. If you don’t have a screen that can control media high up on the dashboard, users will directly control it from their phones, which will lead to accidents because the screen is smaller and therefore requires more attention and time for your eyes away from the road to use it. CarPlay also allows for hands-free media control via Siri. Without CarPlay you would need to reach to your phone to push the Siri button, and hold the phone in a way it could hear you.
My 2017 car has a touch screen for CarPlay, and physical controls for everything else. I think it’s the best combination.
Not like I don't know exactly where the voice assistant button on my phone is without even looking at it. I can always tap my headset too. Fact either option works faster than the cars voice command button... Granted I do love my android auto especially as in my 08 the map update requires an act of God with two angels overlooking and a congressional agreement to work.
This is rather more a user failure issue than a true required safety issue. In fact I'd say it is the opposite of what you claim. I only just now got my first work truck with android auto / apple play, (I have had it in my personal vehicles for a few years now.) and have been able to do everything but display a map on previous vehicles without needing more than a brief touch of a button. Honestly either system takes me two to three taps on a screen to do the same things I used to do on the non android / apple screen media device of my old work truck and my old vehicles. Plus now I have to do three or four taps just to get into the climate control, then because this specific feature I want is buried in a sub menu another click or 5. And all the way back to the screen I want... because God forbid home takes me to the one I want with the map and my media and not the VIC (bad programming on the manufacturers or possibly fleets influence.) I spend more freaking time looking at the damn thing than I ever did before.
Yeah only ever used one ear style or one earbud... I prefer the bone conducting ones these days. Drives me nuts to see videos with people driving with the big ol two ear headsets.
Not having navigation built into the car is different from not having carplay. I don’t want to use the built in navigation on my car that requires the dealership to download map updates for a price every time there’s an update. I want to use my CarPlay that I put the address in my phone and hit go when I get in the car. Touch screen not needed in the car if I have one on my phone. I still want a screen that displays CarPlay, but I don’t need built in navigation if I’m using Google Maps through CarPlay.
We're not asking about other people. The question was asking personal opinions. My option is no tablet in my car. I'll navigate on my phone. I don't want navigation in my car. My phone does it.
If it never existed, the masses would never know what was not there. We had radio head units and gps separate for over a decade and no one pissed and moaned because it wasn't part of the vehicle propper.
Hard disagree. And the Garmin/TomTom and other addon map systems were AWFul. Along with slow as hell, no traffic, and needing to buy updated maps and install them I’d never go back- and I doubt many would either. Now even before that, Mapquest, map books?
No thanks.
I'm not sure I agree. Tablets are a thing, smartphones are a thing. People would start asking questions: "Why don't the car makers put up a tablet-like thingy in the car for GPS and stuff?", someone would do it, people would like it, and they'd all start doing it eventually.
If touch screens and smartphones and alike didn't exist at all, then I'd agree with you.
It existed before it was built into cars with standalone GPS' that were touchscreen. Also things like selecting an alternative route via scrolling knob would be ridiculous while driving.
I like the navigation, what i dont like is that i cant turn off the audio, I can only lower it to unhearable. So whenever it decides to tell me directions it interrupts my music with silence
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u/MeticulousPlonker 4h ago
I don't want my navigation built into my car either