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Review: 2021 Cadillac Escalade Puts Wireless CarPlay on an Expansive OLED Display System
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When I’m connected to wireless CarPlay, I notice my wifi is disconnected, but Bluetooth is on. If I tap wireless to turn it on, it says it’ll disconnect CarPlay.
Wireless CarPlay uses Bluetooth to sense out that the car is nearby and on, then hops onto an internal WiFi network in the car.
this car as spacious as my apartment, similar price too. no outhouse though.
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts”Beautiful, a brand new Canyon Arrow! That car definitely makes a statement, not one I'd personally like to make, but a statement none the less.
Wireless CarPlay would be nice. My F150 has a great CarPlay interface, but its still wired.
For a supposed luxury vehicle, there sure is a lot of cheap looking materials. My <$40K Mazda CX-5 looks more premium.
I can't be the only one who thinks this looks awful right?
The dashboard in the big US SUVs always seem like an afterthought because they are derived from trucks platforms.
Seriously, that is an unnecessarily big engine, especially given who drives these vehicles (suburban families shuttling their kids between school and sports practice). While in Europe people are zooming around just fine in 1.0L 3 cylinder engines that average 40-50MPG.
Darth Tulhu
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The future will be electric once you can charge an electric car as fast as you can put gas into it, AND when there are the same or more charge stations everywhere you go.
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Darth Tulhu
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Generally 4x4 is less fuel efficient.
Also, a lot of customers for this type of vehicle buy it as a status symbol, for the interior size/passenger/cargo capacity, it's high seating position, etc.
It will almost exclusively be driven over freeways, and suburban and city streets.
And in America (where it is built), there is a high amount of contiguous land that doesn't get any conditions that necessitate four-wheel drive.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
When the empty vehicle weighs 5,800 pounds, and you can tow up to 7,700 ADDITIONAL pounds, you certainly don't want to run out of engine power and torque.
General Motors understands their customer base.
Please do tell me, how often do you drive 500 km NON STOP?
oh, never? Never did I. You know, there’s this thing called bladder range. Unless you got rid of it it kinda limits how far can you go. And Tesla for example usually is ready to go again in less than 20 minutes
Yeah the comments by the reviewer don’t make sense. Plenty of other brands utilise an increasingly industry-standard 10.25 or 12.3-inch widescreen display, and CarPlay takes up the whole screen with more content and icons than what it shown in this Cadillac.
Heck, the aftermarket CarPlay interface that I installed in my 2011 BMW with an 8.8-inch widescreen takes full advantage and shows more content.
Darth Tulhu
macrumors 68020
As often as I want to, as many times as I've needed to, and more often than you think.
Presumptuous comment. I have driven literally across the continental United States several times, in pretty much every direction. I never made it to Alaska, though (which reminds me, I really need to renew my passport). Some people never leave their city/town/country in their entire life though, so perhaps that's you?
Is it in any way the same as fuel tank capacity? /s
And I can fill my gas tank in 5 minutes. And I can store gas in multiple cheap containers extending my range from sea to sea if I wanted to, all without the need to access external infrastructure between fill-ups. With any ICE vehicle. From the cheapest to the most luxuriously decadent.
NON STOP? You need to take a break anyway, but it depends on the work you do.
I have a friend, a veterinary technician who goes to vaccinate and health check cows, pigs and other farm animals on daily basis. On average, he travels around 300 km, sometimes more. It depends how far he must drive. Here where I live, there are a lot of scattered settlements and farms, so you have to travel long to reach whatever your destination is.
I also know some people, who drive from a country town or village to work in a bigger city and the distance can be more than 250 km in on way! And than back again.
The future may be electric, but the present is not. The bans on ICE are coming in 2035 and they are only on the sale if new ICE vehicles. ICE will be around for the next 40-50 years.
Or you turn the engine off. I dunno, get out the car even? Afraid you'll melt? Jeez
For use cases where charging isn't an issue, Wireless CarPlay is much more convenient. It's great to get in and out of my car and leave my iPhone in my pocket.
In my BMW, turning directions from Apple CarPlay appear in the head up display, but only if I use Apple Maps for navigation. If I use Google Maps instead, the directions only appear on the screen. I assume this is a restriction imposed by Apple, but I'm not sure.