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And at the same time the car companies want to move away from Apple CarPlay, which for any of its fault is a substantially better UI than we can expect the legacy carmakers to produce.

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That’s all about money… they don’t want Apple to sell services to their customers when they believe it’s “their” territory.

Carmakers want SaaS revenue as well now.

They just want to sell their navi map updates like they used to before CarPlay was a thing.

I used to drive a range rover sport that would display a long pop up with some legalese about focusing on the road while driving when I hit the navi button. It required acknowledging.

My car has one of those, but I rarely have to acknowledge it because once I put the car into reverse, the display switches to the rear camera. When I put the car back into drive, the normal display comes up and the message has been cleared.

Those acknowledgements are so stupid. There should be an assumed level of competence. If a person gets in a wreck because they weren't aware of their surroundings, it isn't the fault of a poorly worded (or missing) nag on the nav display.

My big pet peeve right now is the auto start/stop feature. You can permanently turn it off by installing a $50 device, but why should I have to do that?

That wouldn't be a problem if it weren't that the built-in MB navigator is by ar the best I've ever used, and definitely better than all of the apps (Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Nokia Maps, TomTom, Garmin, etc...).

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