Removing LTE would remove key features that drivers want, including real time traffic updates, remote controls and streaming media? What's your objection to LTE?
> support wireless CarPlay and android auto
Removing LTE doesn't cost me real-time traffic updates because (preferred maps app) is running on my phone which already has LTE. Streaming media? The media is being played from my phone or streamed via my phone, which already has LTE. I'm not sure what "remote controls" are in this context? Letting me set the A/C fan to high from Internet (almost certainly via a browser or app running on... wait for it... my phone)?
We've already paid for the LTE modems and app integration on the phone side of things, don't need to pay for it a second time on the car side or have to deal with the vehicle manufacturer's terrible implementations of navigation apps and media streaming services or yet another vendor collecting telemetry about me and reselling it to whoever wants to pay.
Tracking, phoning home (with related privacy issues), etc:
* https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/flaw-in-kia-web-portal-...
* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/five-...
There's zero chance a car manufacturer is going to nuke some of the most desired features of modern automobiles for some undefined cohort of privacy conscious consumers.
Most younger drivers would even buy Chinese vehicles despite their privacy concerns.
https://www.autopacific.com/autopacific-insights/2024/5/22/y...
It just should be said, that all these features could perfectly be implemented without violating privacy. You just have to use another system not from Apple and that other advertising company.
I have an iPhone with no social media apps. Mainly use it to check e-mail, Maps, weather, and SMS/RCS.
I feel confident that there is minimal third-party tracking, and that Apple themselves are relatively honest.
No one likes ads, no one likes their data being collected. The sooner insurance and car companies understand that, the sooner they get out of the maelstrom of false revenue from ad- and spy-ware programs.
The only data I can find relates to Chinese vehicles which shows some concerns, but that's understandable given they are built by a foreign adversary.
https://www.autopacific.com/autopacific-insights/2024/5/22/y...
What percent of users understand how much data is being collected about them?
The thing is that car manufacturers have been fucking up software in cars since... forever. The second car play and android auto hit the scene, that's all anyone wanted.
There's more benefits than just what's on the surface, too. Even if the car software is perfect, it doesn't have access to the same data your phone does. It won't put your contacts in your navigation, for instance.
Look, can car makers make somewhat decent software? Probably, if they burn enough money. But is it even worth it? I don't think so. People already use their phone hours a day, just let them use that.
Changing lock, light, and anudio (bass/treble/sub/fade) options. Map integration with fuel capacity (they only recently do this for EVs). Checking service intervals, recalls, etc.
If CarPlay had APIs/toolkit to serve those functions, it could 100% replace the UI that the manufacturer delivers (and nobody likes).
If you're gonna build that crap in at least go back to a standard-sized replacable module.