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> Can I trust it to work? > It is alpha-level software, so of course not.

Humility is a beautiful virtue to see.

At work we once found ourselves in the happy position of having far, far too many applicants for a position. We set a simple test as a high-pass filter. One of the questions was about whether garbage collection removes the risk of a memory leak.

One memorable answer was simply "Of course not." Maybe it's the same guy?

> Bugs? Ideas? Want to help? Think this page sucks? We think so too.

>Maybe it's the same guy?

Of course not. ;-)

After watching the demo video, this seems to work as well as Android Auto built into many cars.

I've rented probably 8 different cars with Android Auto.. this seems as good.

I guess so. It runs Android Auto.

But does that mean it's any good?

I've got a '16 Honda Civic and a Google Pixel 2. Android Auto works... but it's buggy sometimes. Voice controlled elements frequently freeze everything, and sometimes it refuses to connect. It seems the source of the problem is probably Bluetooth, because turning that off for a moment generally improves things.

Basically, it's totally possible to get Android Auto wrong. I've rented probably 3 different cars with Android Auto and none of them have the problems my personal Civic has.

I guess what I'm getting at is, I'd happily take a reliable, open source implementation of Android Auto in my car over whatever comes in the stock head unit. Would I actually go around hacking firmware in my own car? Honestly it's a possibility.

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