It’s easy to brush off infotainment system issues by saying “it’s probably a bunch of old people who can’t sync their phones” when in reality modern infotainment systems monitor many more systems then they did a few years back. Locks, HVAC, navigations systems can all be operated by infotainment. Having a broken infotainment could mean you’re gonna freeze in the winter because you can’t control the temp in the cabin.
Whether manufacturers should be adding additional steps to turning on your air is another discussion. As infotainment systems become more mainstream we need to truly understand their jobs and capabilities before we knock them for making reliable car manufacturers look unreliable.
Which is such a dumb way to quantify reliability issues. Like, Android auto is my biggest frustration with my Toyota, but aside from dealing with that occasionally, it does everything important that I need a car to do.
This goes the other way too.
It’s easy to brush off infotainment system issues by saying “it’s probably a bunch of old people who can’t sync their phones” when in reality modern infotainment systems monitor many more systems then they did a few years back. Locks, HVAC, navigations systems can all be operated by infotainment. Having a broken infotainment could mean you’re gonna freeze in the winter because you can’t control the temp in the cabin.
Whether manufacturers should be adding additional steps to turning on your air is another discussion. As infotainment systems become more mainstream we need to truly understand their jobs and capabilities before we knock them for making reliable car manufacturers look unreliable.
This is why I’m glad my highlander still has physical climate controls.
Which is such a dumb way to quantify reliability issues. Like, Android auto is my biggest frustration with my Toyota, but aside from dealing with that occasionally, it does everything important that I need a car to do.