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> “At this point I think it’s almost a safety issue. I don’t have my backup camera or my navigation system. It’s just weird.”

This seems like a pretty serious issue. Not just the radio.

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/youre-listening-to-kuow-like-i...

Definitely a safety issue IMHO. It's common on the road to see signs that say "accident ahead, tune to XXX AM" or similar emergency warnings. If you can't tune in to be warned of danger ahead it's a bit of a problem.

These are conveniences. Yes, backup cameras have been mandated for ~7 years now in the US. One can surely still drive safely without looking at a screen.

A backup camera is more than a convenience. It gives you visibility that you simply cannot get without it. Unless the rear half of your car is transparent, every time you back up you do so with a blind spot directly where you're driving. There's a reason these cameras are mandatory on new builds.

Yes, but less safely. Hence the mandate.

Modern vehicles have very high belt lines for crash safety, but that also makes for even larger blind spots.

The flashing at full brightness, then dimming, then brightening again before rebooting isn't exactly fun at night.

They can't XD. Someone in public radio zero dayed the Mazda infotainment by sending an image in the RDS feed.

I don't think RDS/RBDS can do images, can it? I'm pretty sure that's an HD Radio/NRSC-5 function.

It's not even that they sent an image, it's that they didn't put an extension on the filename of the image.

Source? That sounds like a really cool hack if it’s true

see above

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268294

(HD Radio, not RDS)

Funny you suggest that -- I ran into a similar frustration with a Ford running Microsoft SYNC (voice command system) in 2008. If you hit the phone button while a phone was not set up via bluetooth, that would disable the rest of the sound system (i.e. anything other than telling you it can't find a phone). No matter which button you pushed, it couldn't switch away from the phone.

Only by stopping and restarting the engine could you get out. [1]

But these Mazdas can't even get out that way!

[1] See item 8: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2008/07/setting-sync-strai...

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