I still like the aux cord to phone for music and navigation on my phone, whenever I drive my wife’s car that has all this fancy entertainment shit I don’t use any of it. Crusty old man who isn’t old at all i guess
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I don’t consider any of that stuff to be futuristic. You are just creating a bigger top 40 behemoth than came before.
A roland digital recorder plugged into an aux is my prime setup.
I like the infotainment setups until I got my new truck. The screen is huge and has multiple windows. Just way too much shit. I can’t use it when I’m driving and I dont want to set shit up in my driveway. I want to get in and go. I will Bluetooth my phone in so I can listen to podcasts and that’s about it.
My Mazda’s system was incredibly slow to boot up. Painfully slow. Android auto was slow to show up as well. The speed was the big one.
What makes one good? Speed, and the ability to do things with minimal button presses.
It didn’t help that in addition to being slow, I had some type of phantom touch issue that would randomly select things on the screen. Of course it wasn’t reproducible for warranty work.
Yeah that’s another problem is they are often very glitchy. I drive a lot of pre production vehicles for work and holy shit if I can just get a functional radio and actually use the HVAC controls I’m happy but some times the cars are borderline undrivable in the state we get them in.
These infotainment systems are gonna age about as well as DIVX players. I hate them and have been looking at older gen cars specifically to avoid them.
CarPlay is fantastic imo.
I love my voice recognition in my android subaru.
Find music. Navigate. Send and reply to messages. Its excellent.
Daughter passed her drivers test, so I’m now officially on the clock to get a car. Test drove an RDX today and, not surprisingly, thought it was great. Basically just a better-in-every-way version of the Honda CRV I currently drive.
Of course, the idea of buying a new car without even comparison shopping is ridiculous, so I didn’t even have a conversation about price. But I’m really dreading going out and test driving a bunch of other cars. I work with someone that actually finds joy in doing that, but I hate it. I’m leaving on a trip to Singapore tomorrow, and I’d be kind of thrilled if I came back to an RDX in the garage. But mrs. spidercrab would never do that.
Let me get you in this nice used car
Is she aware you like the car?
lol Tesla I know, but the infotainment on a Tesla is 10x better than any other car I’ve driven. I rent cars like once a week, and avoid the infotainment in all cases (I connect to Bluetooth for audio then charge using a power-only USB port assuming one exists). Tesla’s is the only system better than just having the phone controlling audio—and it’s markedly better.
I can’t stand CarPlay. It’s almost like they design it to maximize the number of menus you have to navigate through to find anything.
Do you have to tow stuff a lot? Just take the tow hitch off??
Never towed a thing in my life. Should I just let it be?
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Rusty metal bar protruding from your car at an odd angle—what could go wrong?
Rip the thing off.
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She’s aware I like the car and supports the idea of me buying it. She just thinks it would be stupid to spend that much money without test driving other cars to make sure I get the one I like best.
It’s hard for me to argue with that tbh.
I just test drove a bunch of cars and it was very low stress. They just flipped me the keys at multiple dealerships with no salesperson in the car.
It’s worth an afternoon for something you’ll own for years.
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For our last several car transactions I’ve used a broker. They save me way more money than their fee, and it is 100% hassle-free. Our most recent car was delivered to our house and I signed the already-prepared paperwork in our driveway, it took 5 minutes.
Android Auto has always been perfect for me on rentals. As long as my next car has it, I don’t care about the rest.
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