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I would love it if I didn't have to click Accept on the touch-screen in my car every time I start it up. I shouldn't have to accept the terms and conditions every time - I already have agreed to abide by local laws - it's my driving license.

Anybody know if it's possible to get into a these systems and do a bit of tinkering? I guess my question is more: as someone who isn't really prepared to spend weeks looking for buffer overrun exploits, is there usually a quick ("mechanic's view") backdoor to these things that's accessible with a bit of cunning?

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> have to click Accept on the touch-screen in my car every time I start it up

Wow, that's just horrible. Even Windows doesn't make you accept Terms and Conditions every time you reboot. May I ask what car you have?

Maserati Ghibli (2017) - the parent company is Fiat/Chrysler and they seem to have a re-skinned Chrysler infotainment system. Which isn't too bad once you get past the annoying warning. It doesn't stop me driving, just stops quick access to things you want to set when you get in the car.

Not OP but newer Mazdas do this as well. It's a small thing, but it comes incredibly irritating after awhile.

All the recent Kia models I have driven and a recent model Toyota Corolla.

My Boxster does the same thing, which is indeed annoying, but at least it doesn't disable any functions while driving. That would be infuriating.

One thing that helps in my case is to double-click the MAP button instead of pressing it only once. The first keypress has the effect of accepting the nag screen, while the second pulls up the map. Sounds like you get the message even when you aren't using the nav system, though, so that probably won't help.

If I were any more annoyed about the nag screen than I already am, I'd bodge in a small microcontroller to double-click the MAP button whenever the car is started. (I already had to add one to force it to remember Sport mode across drive cycles.) That would have the significant advantage of working without digging into the touchscreen logic. So if the Ghibli has a physical button somewhere that has the same effect as clicking "OK," that's probably your best option.

toyota prius have this problem. there was another problem, you couldn't set a mapping address while it was driving (even if you were the passenger). the soln was some kind of inline clip that cut the wire conceptually that was telling the mapping system the car was moving.

Yeah - my Audi isn't perfect, but it at least errs on the side of "well, you're an adult".

Driving along and start to enter navigation info? "You should only enter information when safe." "OK". And it continues to let you. Doesn't block or disable (my Toyota a few years back would require you to agree to GPS map accuracy warning every time, and then disable input if the vehicle was above 3mph...).

If you go into settings, you can turn off that feature and make it auto-accept every time on startup. No hacking needed.

Not found that setting on my car unfortunately.

I'll stop complaining that I can't use half the functions of mine while "driving" which means anything but parked.

More than likely you can get your car "coded" which lets you customize little things like that.

What car does that?

I have a Kia Soul that does that exact same thing.

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