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Aren't everybody using android auto (or its Apple equivalent) these days anyway?

The builtin infotainment system is usually just a second thought that exist just to showcase something in the showroom and setup android auto at first use.

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Google upgraded Android Auto to a backward incompatible version right before I bought my second hand 2016 car. The car manufacturer never upgraded the software of the car so I don't even know what Android Auto can do. But everybody has their own phone so if it's OK at home and on a bus it will be OK in a car too.

Tesla isn't. Which is really frustrating because the voice control in the Tesla does not work reliably (maybe functions 20% of the time, and that's _if_ the button on the steering wheel to start it works - usually that fails to register even before I attempt to speak to the car)

Will android auto even work wireless? Any bigger bump and it stops working, so I jut put my phone in a plastic handle that is attached to the window with a suction cup..

Wireless android auto works for me with an aftermarket head unit

I don't know, GPS navigation is typically the kind of situation where I would want to keep my smartphone plugged to charge anyway. I is the biggest power sucking usage of a smartphone imho.

I have no reason to use it because my infotainment doesn’t suck.

I assume you're using Tesla. Do you live in one of their core markets? I doubt Tesla Maps or whatever it's called holds a candle to Google Maps for non-US, non-Western Europe regions.

No, it's a Skoda. I mostly just use the navigation which is very usable, plus with a subscription you also get live traffic. There's a few things which annoy me about the infotainment but that's inherent to the whole system (like annoying popups on boot), so CarPlay doesn't fix that.

One good reason is that your phone, or rather the account tied to your phone, already keeps all your favorite destinations.

No, because Teslas don't support it and you're stuck with whatever they thought of.

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