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And yet most of the companies don't seem to be willing to spend the one-time cost of getting the UX right.
I want a 7-10” central display that spends 99% of its time showing CarPlay but also has a radio if I need it, the backup camera when I’m in reverse, and lets me change a couple of settings for convenience features like auto locking etc. Everything else can be dials, knobs, and buttons. My Mazda3 is perfect for this and I’m quite sad that I’m almost certainly not going to be able to find anything like it by the time I…
Anyway, it runs Android Automotive, but supports Android Auto and CarPlay as well. My SO uses the former exclusively and it's on as soon as she gets in the car, can't imagine it's any different for CarPlay.
If you run the Automotive shell, you can have a media widget at the bottom which can be set to radio, shown here[2], I listen to DAB that way.
It also has a row of physical buttons for the important stuff, like climate control, defrost and such. Media and volume controls are on the steering wheel.
[1]: https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictur...
[2]: https://cdn.automobile-propre.com/uploads/2021/09/megane-ren...
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Ford SYNC. https://pictures.dealer.com/s/surprisefordvtg/0292/10a2adba8... It's like a window into hell.
I've got a Ranger with SYNC 4. HVAC has its own set of buttons and dials below the display, but you can use the touchscreen widgets too if you want to. https://www.ford.com.au/content/ford/au/en_au/home/owners/te...
Hardware companies trying to build software, without actually understanding software. There's a reason why Apple, Nvidia, Tesla got where they got to.
Remove the LTE chip and all functionality related to ads, support wireless CarPlay and android auto, and use physical buttons. You’ll win every award in the industry.
Slate have done this and it's really quite compelling. You even get window winders. https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization
* Bed size is just five feet
* Towing capacity is just 1000 lbs
* Not AWD
None of these can be retrofitted after the sale.
Where I live, it'd struggle to be called a "truck" with these limitations.
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Mazda has done a great job at this so far, very minimal screen which automatically just shows CarPlay, and buttons for all the normal car stuff, which also isn’t overdone. The only flaw is the scroll wheel to interact with the screen, which is just slightly too clunky in apps with too many options
My 2017 Mazda cx5 refuses to not play the radio. There is no "off" for the audio, you have to choose a source. I use my phone, via bluetooth. But sometimes, for unknown reasons, the car does not connect with the phone. It then falls back to the last source chosen before BT, which is radio. Okay, so I created a flash drive with an mp3 of 30 seconds of silence, played that, then went back to bluetooth. This failback st…
https://www.cx90forum.com/threads/fuse-box-diagram.172/
Something foul and malign is afoot at Mazda these days.
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I'm getting IG videos in my feed for a company that sells after market fixes because older Teslas have such poorly designed electronics, that they fail in common ways. The memory goes bad because they write useless logs to a chip, and it eventually fails. End users are beta testing... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DINADISyP0f/
That’s always been the case with Tesla. I still have no idea how the yoke with no progressive steering and a tiny button for a horn ever passed any sanity check. Not to mention the NHTSA.
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ok but why tho??? I have a lot of interest in embedded system can someone tell me if there are any course that taught this??
I learned embedded in the school of hard knocks.
The article seems to overlook the fact that if you can receive a benevolent update over the air, you can also receive a malevolent one over the air. Over-the-air is not a good update model for cars. It would be better if you had to install the update manually.
