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Toyota reportedly ready to put Android Auto in its cars
Toyota may finally relent and allow Android Auto to work in its cars, according to Bloomberg. An official announcement reportedly could come as soon as next month.
The giant Japanese carmaker was one of the last major automakers to announce CarPlay compatibility. After holding out for years, Toyota announced this past January that Apple's own in-car infotainment service would show up in its cars starting with the 2019 Avalon. However, the company has continued to eschew Android Auto, with security concerns being cited as one of the reasons for the delayed adoption. In the meantime, Toyota has spent the last few years building its in-car infotainment experience around the Ford-born SmartDeviceLink platform, which allows some iOS and Android apps to be mirrored on a vehicle's screen.
[...] Android Auto is compatible with nearly 50 different car brands around the globe, which is slightly behind the 60 or so that Apple has made deals with. Google has been working hard to push automakers in a different direction, though — it will soon provide Volvo with an entire Android-powered infotainment operating system, and recently announced plans to do the same for the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance.
Also at Bloomberg and Engadget.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:50AM (2 children)
What can go wrong?
I mean... look... surely every hands-on driver need some entertainment and info-graphics while driving, right? Otherwise, s/he may get bored and tired.
Even more, we can't track them while fatally crashing and that limits the usefulness of our collected data to insurance companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:25PM (1 child)
Self-driving cars. The car companies and the content distributors want the systems in place before self-driving hits.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @10:19PM
Understandable.
I mean, look, would you be a passenger in a self-driving car without any means of distraction from the gory scenes when the car hits pedestrians?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:56AM
Toyota is only one of the very largest car companies in the world.
Steve Jobs would have gotten Toyota on board.
Pipeline Timmy, on the other hand, is too busy lobbying for fudgepacker rights.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by MostCynical on Tuesday September 25 2018, @04:10AM
why do "infotainment" systems need to have any interaction with operational systems?
Engine, brakes, suspension, exhaust and gearbox can all be "changed" through the infotainment screens.
Is it because it is "easier" to program that way?
Exposing any of the safety/control systems to the infotainmant is just asking for trouble.
Allowing the infotaimnent system to talk to other devices or "the internet" is even worse (yes, "over the air updates" are a thing, but not a *neccessary" thing)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:10AM (1 child)
So you literally can't take a shit without Google.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @06:39AM
https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html [google.com]
Amazon is closer to putting Alexa in a toilet though.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:38AM (7 children)
I'm willing to concede that fuel injection is better than carburetion.
I far prefer to drive a stick but if I did I'd be getting daily speeding tickets, so I really do need an automatic with cruise control.
Beyond that I don't want any technology in my car, and I want to be able to fix it with tools I already own.
I once owned a Toyota Corona that I really, really liked - not a Corolla, there were very few Coronas imported to the US - but I borked its electrical then wound up giving it to a friend free as in beer. He paid someone fifty bucks to fix it then continued to drive it for years.
Sucks to be me because that beat-up old wreck would be worth more than five grand now, even if it wasn't capable of running.
I want a car just like that but with fuel injection, automatic and cruise control. Can you suggest a specific make and model? I'm asking because I'm planning to buy such a car sometime soon.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by pipedwho on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:45AM (2 children)
Pretty much all manual cars these days also have cruise control. They won't change gears for you, but they'll keep you at a designated speed. The ones with active cruise control will even break a little to keep you from speeding up on a downhill run, along with keeping the car moving in traffic. Again, they don't change gears for you, but as a manual driver you feel the engine labouring/revving and subconsciously clutch-in and change to the next appropriate gear.
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:48AM (1 child)
Oops 'brake', not 'break'. Not so good if a car breaks automatically.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:29PM
They do that too. It happens right after the warranty runs out.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Tuesday September 25 2018, @05:49AM (3 children)
Just got a Hyundai Elantra Sport, the one with the dual clutch transmission. Best of both worlds. 201 HP and up to 40 MPG on the highway.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday September 25 2018, @01:42PM (2 children)
WTF? Why would you need 200+HP without family and kids?
My Hyundai i30 diesel gets 4.8L/100km = almost 50MPG in combined 30%city/70%highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:23AM (1 child)
Wife and three kids fit in the car fine. I got the sport model primarily for the dual clutch transmission, and it was in stock in the electric blue color I wanted. The color is actually a big deal; people don't notice grey-scale cars around here (black, grey, white, silver), especially in the rain, snow, or at night. We've had multiples rear-ended at red lights and stop signs. The economy and eco models were only available in grey-scale colors. Besides, it's nice to have that HP on tap when merging with clumsy clumps of traffic on the freeway.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 26 2018, @12:54AM
My apologies, I meant "Why would he need...".
Otherwise, the "people don't notice grey-scale" is quite an interesting bit.
My experience: considering the downunder sun, I went with a white one. The fact that I have to deal less frequent with congestion didn't raised the "be noticeable" problem to me.
True that. In the majority of my cases, 120HP in a lightish-weight car is more than enough for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0