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Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by tetris11 »

phero_cnstrcts wrote: post #38
josefresco wrote: post #6

Reminds my of when I tried to resurrect and old DJI drone with an out of date iPad mini for a controller. I turn on drone, launch the app and try several times to take off and fail. Try one last time assuming failure and it starts to take off! But then... Just as the drone starts to drift towards me, several notifications pop up within the app/iOS preventing control and sending me into a panic. Drone hits the house s…

At this point I’ll just try to build anything I need from the ground up myself.

Ardupilot and MavProxy are a great starting point.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by LAC-Tech »

tomxor wrote: post #29
RajT88 wrote: post #18

Just FYI - you can replace your head unit even on newer cars. There's a bustling aftermarket industry for this kind of stuff: https://www.belsee.com/android-car-radio/hyundai-radio.html This way - your data gets abused by the Chinese government instead of Hyundai! (I kid, sort of, but these head units let you exert more control over your car, as they often ship rooted, or can be rooted) If you DIY install the head un…

I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. I'm really not looking forward to when I'm forced to buy a new car - few things make me more mad than smartphone tech with universally slow and terrible UX, duck-taped onto machines, let alone dangerous machines.

Seriously. I have zero use for a touch screen in a car.

Maps? When I drive I look at... the road. If I need directions, google maps can tell me to turn left etc by voice commands.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by thedaly »

nocoiner wrote: post #2

SiriusXM periodically demands that I assent to their new terms and conditions (despite the fact that I’m frequently on a trial or pre-paid subscription). I think I can ignore/dismiss it indefinitely without it cutting service to the radio but eventually I get so tired of seeing it each time I start my car, I just agree to it. So, exactly what they want to happen. Well played, SiriusXM. I sort of can’t believe that th…

There needs to be clear regulation, with defined penalties or precedent, forbidding the practice for these to go to court.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by bri3d »

zwieback wrote: post #3

I wonder if this could theoretically happen for the main display in front of the steering wheel. Are there safety standards carmakers have to certify to when it comes to speedometer, etc.?

Yes. Extremely strict ones having to do with the visibility, reliability, and availability of certain UI elements as well as warning lights. In the US, this is all governed by the FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards).

This is part of the reason why you'll still see separate warning lights or really weird/ugly overlays for some warnings on modern digital dashboards - in many situations, the safety critical / regulated information is actually being blitted to the screen by a _separate safety processor!_ running an RTOS, while the whiz-bang main display is powered by some commodity SoC running Linux or QNX.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by folli »

guntherhermann wrote: post #26
gwbas1c wrote: post #22

What country do they drive in MPH with the steering wheel on the right side of the car? I've heard a lot of references to "miles" in British culture, but I assumed that was habits of older people. I thought the UK was all metric by now?

Yeah, this'll be the UK. We use a mix of imperial and metric, so you'll see "300m to next service station" and also "30 mph" speed limits :). People typically weigh themselves in stone and lbs, yet the food we buy is weighed in grams

The UK.

Europe's last stronghold against the French Revolution's dictate of the metric system.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by Yaggo »

capableweb wrote: post #36

Is there any car company or car accessory company that could get things like this correct? Not even Apple can get it correct it seems, as in CarPlay, if there is a incoming call, it covers the entire screen with the person/info who is calling, so if you're using navigation, until you either reject the call or pick up, it hides the maps behind the notification...

Tesla does excellent job here.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #42
tomxor wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. I'm really not looking forward to when I'm forced to buy a new car - few things make me more mad than smartphone tech with universally slow and terrible UX, duck-taped onto machines, let alone dangerous machines.

Seriously. I have zero use for a touch screen in a car. Maps? When I drive I look at... the road. If I need directions, google maps can tell me to turn left etc by voice commands.

I don't think I could live without it anymore, but I have a really tight parking situation at home and the parking sensors that are exposed through the head unit are really useful. Not to mention navigation and all that stuff. These features are really considered standard now by most (but definitely not all) people.
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