I'm ignoring them because, in regards to Tesla, they're woefully incorrect and in a negligible minority. 86% of Tesla owners... 86%... eighty-six percent... prefer Tesla's system. Are you just ignoring everyone because you've never used it and it simply doesn't matter to *you*? Do you believe your specific needs are the only ones in the market for Tesla's? Tesla's system is feature-rich, others are not. Using a projection system, due to the way you interact with a Tesla's overall functions, is dangerous.
I recently drove a Tesla M3 for a week. It was mostly a good experience. Locking and unlocking the doors proved more cumbersome than on my Volt, but I eventually figured out the process.
The navigation system worked well and for any situation where I need to include charging I would probably use that. The Tesla Apple Music app was clunky and was annoying because it kept skipping songs on a playlist. I’ve heard that there are data caching issues.
Most of my driving has me listening to podcasts on Overcast on my iPhone. Doing that on CarPlay is easy and I have access to podcast chapters and to other podcasts and the CarPlay interface makes it easy to use. On the Tesla I was limited to Bluetooth and a very minimal player interface that just gave me play/pause and skip forward and back. Anything else required me to pickup my phone and use its small screen to operate. Not something I want to do while driving, even at a stoplight. Unless Tesla were to have a copy of my specific podcast app and that would sync in real time to the app on my phone, then there is a brick wall that doesn’t let me do what I need on Tesla.
When I am using navigation, most of the time the driving is local and I just need assistance finding the specific freeway exit and the turns near the destination. I may only need to charge every few days. That location information is coming from a web search on my phone, from an email on my phone, or contacts on my phone, or something else on my phone. See the pattern? Yes, I could bring up the Tesla app on the phone and paste a location there or start a new search on the car’s navigation, but I’d rather not.
I don’t want to share my contacts, my call history, my calendar, or other data from my phone to my car. It doesn’t need that information.
It’s OK if Tesla doesn’t provide all of the apps and data that I need. They should provide good software related to the operation of the vehicle and then give me a way to easily integrate the personalized data space of my phone into the car. then I will use Tesla’s apps when I need them and will use Carplay apps when I need them. This is not a pissing contest. This is about respecting your customers.
GM should learn this lesson too. Tesla may still get lots of customers. GM may still get lots of customers, buy I guarantee that they are going to get less customers than they could because they refuse to allow this kind of personalized phone integration that we need. I currently drive a Chevy Volt. It was my first Chevy and I was impressed enough that I was considering another Chevy for my next car. I would have been an easy sale compared to getting someone from outside the GM space. Now that is not going to happen. As long as GM prioritized small amounts of revenue and data collection over my needs as a customer, I will not be a customer.n I’d even accept needing to subscribe to a plan that included CarPlay but they aren’t even willing to offer that.
Tesla is also out of consideration for the same reason. If a company is going to be hostile to their customers, their potential customers can respond in kind.
