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Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by qingcharles »

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?

Metric in many things, and I was taught metric exclusively through school in the early 80s in England.

Road signs and limits all still in miles exclusively.

People still refer to each other in feet and inches although official stuff often wants cms. TVs still in inches.

It's not as bad as America, because Brits have a very solid understand of metric and tend to use it whenever we can, but still needs work :(

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by teekert »

wredue wrote: post #15
physicsguy wrote: post #10

I have a 2021 Skoda Scala that does this, it’s incredibly annoying. It tells me there is a software update, but in the same message says that it can’t do it while driving…

My 2017 silverado pops up a message telling me to keep my eyes on the road while driving cause it’s dangerous to take your eyes off the road for a long time while the truck is moving.

:D

My parents owned a Renault that would tell you at every single start to obey the traffic regulations. I wish I could slap that car and it would feel it.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by PlunderBunny »

What happens if you just put a piece of cardboard over the screen and never take it off? Are there also audible warnings? Does it cover necessary indicators such as speed or fuel tank?

Edit: Oh, the reversing camera - I guess that’s pretty useful.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by RajT88 »

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.

> I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more.

Yeah, some stuff makes you go through the head unit on some machines. Any replacement head unit would have to implement the same controls somehow.

Wealthy will be the person who makes a generic 2 DIN head unit, where you have physical buttons which you can map to various CANBus messages.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

seansh wrote: post #9

Reminds me of the old "If cars were like computers" post. https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/crash.htm

> Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

> $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.

Disregarding the massive waste of resources for building so many new cars, that actually sounds like a great deal compared to today.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by mikestew »

jcdavis wrote: post #28
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?

Definitely not. Having your fuel economy measured in MPG but having your fuel tank size & fillups measured in L is always a fun game.

That’s called “an American drives to Canada”. Is $4/litre expensive? Wait, before you answer, those are also Canadian dollars, so don’t forget the exchange rate. Now, how much, using U. S. dollars, to fill up an eight gallon motorcycle tank?

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by qingcharles »

jcdavis wrote: post #28
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?

Definitely not. Having your fuel economy measured in MPG but having your fuel tank size & fillups measured in L is always a fun game.

And those gallons are different gallons to the American ones too...!

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by samtho »

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…

Instead of legislating pop over messages to happen (looking at cookie messages), we just need to legislate these trash interruptions away. I didn’t begin using the device I purchased to be interrupted by something that had literally no bearing on my life, I cannot effectively use the device if I decline, and the existence of such can cause harm if I am working with something sensitive.

Re: Car showed pop-up while driving

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Post by karaterobot »

Tangent: I would love if there was a place that did car reviews that actually talked about UI. Car interfaces are such a huge part of the experience of driving now, and none of the car review channels I watch give it more than a couple sentences. If they ever mention the UI at all, it's to say whether it feels "snappy", or if it supports CarPlay, or how large the touch screen is. I want a deep dive into more of the details, since it's something I'll use every day and which really, really does factor in to my purchasing decisions.
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