I wish I didn’t have to look at or touch my phone for navigation. No clue why, with modern tech, I can’t communicate with my phone verbally star trek style to ask questions about upcoming turns, alternate routes, adding stops, etc.
Good solutions are actually possible (and available!), but for some reason almost no car companies adopt them. Or they do for a single model, never to touch it again.
I know at least one model of Skoda Fabia has a feature, where you can connect your phone (via cable or bluetooth), and it’ll take the phone’s Google maps and display them on the car’s bigger screen.
Not a perfect solution, but infinitely better than just using a phone or the car’s most likely outdated navigation. Entirely possible, but very rare.
My previous employer upgraded everyone’s work phones early this year. Some sort of MOTO phone. Im dispatched, this phone is given to me for navigation. This thing was so overloaded with ads that I couldn’t use Google maps for a single trip without giant full screen ads popping up for some MOTO shit. It’s the actual phone manufacturer shoving ads up while a navigation app has the screen forced on.
I’m no phone dev, but there’s no way the phone manufacturer who modifies the boot image and packs 20 uninstallable apps DOESNT know when the phone is being used for navigation. I would say the opposite, I bet android makes it very clear why the screen is stuck on. And the phone manufacturer says hey let’s advertise right now, it’s the perfect time.
How many deaths can be directly tied to this advertising campaign. Like so wildly directly, I’m not sure how advertising can more directly and immediately cause death like this. There’s a MOTO dev somewhere that should be looking at hard time
I wish I didn’t have to look at or touch my phone for navigation. No clue why, with modern tech, I can’t communicate with my phone verbally star trek style to ask questions about upcoming turns, alternate routes, adding stops, etc.
Good solutions are actually possible (and available!), but for some reason almost no car companies adopt them. Or they do for a single model, never to touch it again.
I know at least one model of Skoda Fabia has a feature, where you can connect your phone (via cable or bluetooth), and it’ll take the phone’s Google maps and display them on the car’s bigger screen.
Not a perfect solution, but infinitely better than just using a phone or the car’s most likely outdated navigation. Entirely possible, but very rare.
My previous employer upgraded everyone’s work phones early this year. Some sort of MOTO phone. Im dispatched, this phone is given to me for navigation. This thing was so overloaded with ads that I couldn’t use Google maps for a single trip without giant full screen ads popping up for some MOTO shit. It’s the actual phone manufacturer shoving ads up while a navigation app has the screen forced on.
I’m no phone dev, but there’s no way the phone manufacturer who modifies the boot image and packs 20 uninstallable apps DOESNT know when the phone is being used for navigation. I would say the opposite, I bet android makes it very clear why the screen is stuck on. And the phone manufacturer says hey let’s advertise right now, it’s the perfect time.
How many deaths can be directly tied to this advertising campaign. Like so wildly directly, I’m not sure how advertising can more directly and immediately cause death like this. There’s a MOTO dev somewhere that should be looking at hard time