Vast majority of stuff people do on the road isn't necessary. Don't do it at all when you can avoid it.
I suppose it depends on what options you have and what you're prepared to put up with.
I have a Black Edition Honda Ridgeline. The lane departure sucks. When you turn it on it beeps warning you you are about to drive off the edge of the road even if you are in the middle of the lane. The lane assist feature wants to push you in to the center barrier. The radar cruise control will allow the vehicle to fly up on any slower traffic in front of you, even scare's the crap out of me sometimes, and I use to run motorcycles on the track. 😂
Unfortunately we don't have a choice here. 🙄
Having the ability to have Apple Maps in the car has definitely saved me from a few accidents, I'm sure. The lane placement and lack of extreme detail like Google Maps, does help make it less distracting. The reason I don't use Google Maps in the car is because it does show so much detail, I find myself looking at it more than I do the road. Apple's CarPlay, for me anyway, shows just the right amount of info. My Car's built in UI is very clumsy and slow, non-intuitive. Sometimes just pressing one thing causes it to close out all together, and then the traffic light changes and I have to move on... Oh well. To each their own. And again, my only complaint is they're taking away options, not that you or anyone else does or doesn't use them. I'm glad you're enjoying your car's UI.
Doesn't matter if you would buy one or not. It sets a bad precedent that other manufacturers will almost certainly try as well. Gotta monetize every part of the now $60k cars smh... Monkey see, monkey do.
I thought texting while driving was a violation in most states.
Not texting, per se’. Tapping an icon and then telling Siri the message to send. It’s illegal in most states to be holding and using your phone while driving. “Hands Free”
Exactly.... Plus, I've had several cars wrecked in my lifetime by OTHER drivers. (One was when I was parked in a lady's driveway, doing some computer service work for her! I heard her yell to me that my check was on the kitchen counter to pick up when I was done fixing her PC, and she was going out for a bit. Next thing I know, I hear a crash. She pulled her van out of her garage without looking and ran right into my car.)
They do make radio frequency adapters. plug into your phone and turn your radio to the proper channel/frequency.
When a person spends that much money on a new car, mickeymouse workarounds are unacceptable to most.
After living with a Prius for years, I rented a Mazda with that horrid auto start/stop nonsense while on a vacation trip. I agree that it's a safety hazard.
Unfortunately they're all like this now. My mom's new Audi Q3 even does it.
Not me. I had a ‘04 Passat, 5-speed manual, 4-Motion, loved it. Problem was it was getting up there in years and didn’t want to take long road trips with it during the winter months. Kids play hockey and I was putting 20k - 30k per year. The wife couldn’t drive the manual when I started taking her newer vehicle, so I caved. At the time we were in a condo and we’re only allowed 2 vehicles. I miss that car. 😢
That or a clever way to sell more injectors, batteries, and starters. There‘s a significant amount of wear and tear and unburnt fuel being generated at every restart. A running system is so finely tuned, exhaust is almost nonexistent at idle. If they would just synchronize the damn lights you wouldn’t have half the start/stops you do have.
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Noble thought but who gets "they" to actually do this?
"They" ones artificially forcing this changeover to electric cars of course. 😉
