Posted on 04/06/2019 8:58:30 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Auto makers and Silicon Valley are locked in a fight to control the dashboard display...
The current state of play is a confused free-for-all as the two industries circle each other warily. Some car makers are turning over their dashboard operating systems to Alphabet’s Google entirely. Others, including Ford Motor Co. and Daimler AG , wager they can muster the technological chops to compete...
With his wife’s 2016 Mazda CX-5, he can’t figure out how to turn off the radio. “We can turn it down,” he said. “But off is apparently a complex process we haven’t been able to figure out.”
A Mazda spokeswoman said there is no easy way ...
Amazon.com Inc. is in the midst of rolling out its Alexa voice assistant in BMW, Toyota and Volkswagen models, though it’s limited in what it can do...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Neither of my Toyotas how’s the screen, I have a 4Runner with a locker and a 2.5 inch Australian lift kit. And I have a tundra. Both of them have radios, and 6 disc changers. I’ve looked all through him and I don’t see a screen, when did they start adding that? I don’t want to watch TV in a car
I will never own a modern car or truck with any of the new technology. My 20 year old car drives and looks like new. Anything newer than that, I do not want.
7 cars here, not a one with a screen.
I can remember when turn on and tuning a car radio was as simple as adjusting two knobs. Now you have to learn to code to operate the car radio all while maintaining control of the car.
the more electronic distractions that you have on a car will ultimately make it less safe.
I do not know what they do today but, long ago it was S-O-P for a race car to mount the analog gauges so the indicator pointed straight up for normal operating.
The oil pressure gauge might be rotated 45 degrees.
At a glance, all is good to go.
My beloved Suburban required a copilot to manage the controls!!!
Worse they were some kind of touch screen, ZERO FEEDBACK (non-haptic).
Ancient Ford pickup I had was much better, a slider for heat, a slider for air volume and a three position switch for the fan.No need to look, ever.
Need to be a WSJ subscriber in order to read the article
Sometimes there are second sources available, I could not find any.
I attempted to post an exec summary.
And yes I skipped quite a bit.
See #20
I swear I’m gonna root that sucker!
When I got my new Acura years ago I told the salesman I didn’t want ANY of their decals on my car. I’m not buying this car to advertise THEIR business. I said IF it was on there that they will be having MY business advertised on one of their big windows as long as I owned the car. He laughed - and said the only advertisement they use is the removable license tag plate. Fortunately that was all they did and I removed it before I drove off the lot.
The right to be left alone.
YES!
I did some of my best work(thinking) stuck in traffic, radio, phone off and windows up.
May have been even more productive, if I had Autopilot.
I often rode the train in, not the same, not even close.
You are so right. At my local Speedway station in Wisconsin they had an ad using Scarlett Johansson to ask us to donate to Feed the Children fund. Scarlett give them some of your vast earnings, do not bother me.
What about looking at the road?
And now that I’m getting old my reaction time can be measured on the kitchen clock... the glasses thicker...
All the more important!
Our 2017 Toyota Rav 4 manual is 740 pages plus another 366 page manual for the Navigation and Multimedia system.
user manual about 500 pages long.
My wife’s Prius V has a huge manual, but the thing is more computer than anything else, that is somewhat expected.
In some areas, I wish it was a bit deeper.
But the internet has most of the details.
There are a number of vehicles with massaging seats, including the F150.
Just like the crapware they put on the phones!
I swear I’m gonna root that sucker!
See# 20
Many dealers have debadging option, either free or nominal cost.
I know several people with hot rod versions of vehicles that don’t want the AMG or M or S badges, etc, to attract any more attention.
My wife is usually a very patient and kind person. Not when it comes with invasive electronic nuances/nuisances in her home, car or ??!
She hated the cars that told us that our seat belts were not fastened. Our sons were very good at disabling that nuisance for her.
She has a 15 year old Lexus with minimal electronic nuances/nuisances. As long as it runs well and can be serviced by our old fashioned service man, she will keep it.
I have the first year Honda Ridge Line and it has even less
electronic nuances/nuisances.
I would like to have some type of simple backing up warning protection. We have idiots driving through parking lots like they are in an INDY 500 race.
What is interesting, even with the bare minimum of electronic nuances/nuisances in both cars, they come with two owner’s manuals. I find it easier and faster to Google what is wrong or what I want to do. (Of course in a parked car with the ignition turned off.)
Those aren’t massaging seats,...those are the worn out shock absorbers.
Just bought a 2018 German sedan...so damn complex I’ll never learn how to do 10% of what it’s capable of doing.
Is it an Audi?
If it’s gonna be legal to smoke pot every minute of your waking life and if illegals can get drivers’ licenses; I’d be willing to go Europe on this and completely ban it. People are already bad enough drivers and getting stupider by the day.
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