Apple CarPlay in 2016 Chevy Corvette Stingray
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Posted on 08/18/2015 8:15:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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“Siri, are we there yet?” “You should be there in about 25 minutes.”
“Siri, please play the top hits from 1990.”
“Also, Siri, text Dad and tell him I’ll be there soon.”
I take back all—OK most—of the expletives I’ve ever hurled at Siri. Apple’s personal assistant has finally found a place in my life: riding shotgun.
For the last week, I have been testing Apple’s CarPlay in a 2016 Corvette Stingray. Oh yes, that’s the brand new model with a 455-horsepower V-8 engine, a camera that can capture your laps around the track (or the New Jersey Turnpike, in my case), even a projection on the windshield that displays the current speed limit. If it makes you feel any better, I did get a little sunburned from driving around with the top down.
It has one more bragging right: It’s one of the first cars to get Apple’s in-dash software. Despite being announced by Apple nearly two years ago, car makers are only finally rolling it out. Chevrolet will include it in 14 models in the coming months. Other car makers such as Hyundai, Honda and Volkswagen are doing the same.
Plug your iPhone (5 or newer) into the car’s USB port and the center screen displays a stripped down yet familiar iOS interface. You can control your phone’s maps, music, messages and other street-legal features with taps or by pressing the steering wheel’s voice button, then talking to Siri. Android Auto, which does practically the same thing with Android phones, has also begun to roll out in 2015 and 2016 car models. (Many car makers are supporting both Android Auto and CarPlay in the same models.)
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Siri in a 2016 Corvette?
Me: “The Corvette had a radio?”
This chickadee gets all the plum assignments.
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