This was true pre Christmas 2021 update. Now that nice clean easy to use interface has childish looking android icons and things you use hidden in menus.
Does ABRP still favor lots of short stops over stopping less frequently for longer?
I already do so I can have satellite view in maps, Netflix, Hulu, web browsing, etc.
Except CarPlay was designed many years ago for a ~8” display with low-to-moderate resolution. The Tesla (and I’m sure other EVs) have massive high-res displays that just aren’t designed to display both navigation, music and other miscellaneous apps in a single 8” window Like CarPlay.
It’s customizable, which is nice. You can opt for more frequent but shorter stops over fewer but longer stops, or balance the two for quickest arrival.
Tesla could, if they choose, open the API to allow a 3rd party navigation app to engage battery preconditioning.
Agreed, which is why I’m saying that on the better systems (like Tesla) they should just give us CarPlay in a small 8 inchish screen size. Tesla and other EV’s are either fully controlled or moving to being fully controlled by the touch screen so that’s ton of info that you need access to. Making CarPlay take up that entire screen would be a complete waste. Give me 25% of the screen to CarPlay and everything else to the rest of the manufacturers UI. I just want developers to be able to give end users access to their apps within the car infotainment without having to develop specifically for that cars system
I agree with some of what you said, but opening a small window to display an even smaller window of navigation inside CarPlay (like in the screenshot accompanying the MacRumors front page article) just looks like such a waste of space when 2/3 of the massive display would otherwise be used for navigation, plus the car’s native slide up/down music interface. And I don’t think CarPlay will natively support using 2/3 of an FHD display the way the built-in maps (or, ideally, the way official 3rd party apps) would.
Yeah, I agree completely. Native will be much better than anything CarPlay can offer. But CarPlay gives “a” solution vs either having nothing or hoping for the manufacture to support it. I would rather have a sub par UI experience vs having no experience for apps that the manufacture either refuses to support or hasn’t gotten to it. But as it stands, if you depend on Waze and really want Waze, there’s no solution.
In my Tesla, if I needed something like ABRP, I’d just as soon use it off the phone directly than try to somehow graft it on to the Tesla screen.
Yeah, I lost interest in owning a Tesla quite a while ago. They were exciting when the S first came out, but have dwindled since. Other electric cars will eclipse them, if they haven't already.
I think this is the issue - for me it doesn't have to be carplay, just something that accesses the music on my phone better than the car's existing setup
I have a Model 3.
They would need to beef up their security before hand for sure, as it stands any app you give your login info to basically has the keys to your whole account and can pretty much do whatever they want (and for the folks that roll their own auth token that bascically limits access to "total control of their car" and not the whole account).
My apologies if you already know this, but you can load all of those same files onto a USB stick and play them from the car interface under Media Player > USB. I think that would be a cleaner solution then playing local music files from the phone, personally. Higher quality sound without the Bluetooth re-encode, not running down your phone battery, etc.
I personally think streaming is simpler, but since dmw7 wants "the same way that in the 90s I would choose from the CDs or tapes I carried in the car," I would think the native interface would be the closest match for that.
