• @drekly
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    211 year ago

    It’s more likely that auto manufacturers put the oldest shittest slowest chips in cars that crash constantly because they can’t handle any load at all.

    • andrew
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      91 year ago

      Isn’t the whole point of android auto that it uses your phone and the display is just an external display when in that mode?

      • kingthrillgore
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        111 year ago

        Still requires overhead and a non-zero number of head units are built on, this may shock you, Android.

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          41 year ago

          My experience has been that anything on QNX works fine, and anything else is hit or miss.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            How do you find what platforms run on QNX? I’d prefer that on my car over other options.

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              21 year ago

              You’d have to look it up for your make and model, but previous gen Hyundai Kia Genesis tend to run on QNX. Don’t know what the new gen runs on.

              Apparently some head units even run Linux!

      • Dave.
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        41 year ago

        I use android auto in numerous rental cars. Some head units are so slow to process taps or menu selections that it is pretty much unusable.

        The normal headunit UI is generally ok, so either there’s a whole lot of overhead for android auto, or some programmer simply dropped the base example implementation of it into the system and did zero work at optimising it.

        Personally, I’m betting that it’s the latter. “Supports Android Auto” box has been ticked on the feature sheet, send it.