GM Says It’s Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety::undefined

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    11 months ago

    There really needs to be a standardised open protocol rather than Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

    There’s no reason why I shouldn’t be able to use a non-Apple/Google app for my in-car infotainment. Apple and Google just want our data.

    Let Android Auto and CarPlay be options in a competing market, rather than zero choice and just having to use whatever your phone provides.

    • Usul_00_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      There are aftermarket options to support screen mirroring over usb, so I think it is possible. Is anyone else putting in the work to compete with Google and Apple? I’ve been watching as Google ads integration to various cars - as an example they didn’t show turn by turn directions on the screen behind the steering wheel a while ago, and added it on Honda at some point. These features take investment, and perhaps the OSS options aren’t keeping up?

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        There needs to be a lot more to it than just screen monitoring, it needs to recognise touch inputs, high-fidelity, low-latency audio (both ways), and importantly the car needs to be able to send information back to the device (is the handbrake on, are the headlights on, etc). That requires integration from the carmaker.

        Open source solutions at the moment cannot be used with in-car infotainment, because of that requirement that the car needs to send information to the device. I think there should be an open protocol for this that all cars implement.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Imagine if we had a functioning Congress that could respond to these (and other) new tech advances with real standards that move technology forward safely and responsibly.

      What a world we could have.