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Google Gemini is coming to more cars, but some consumers aren’t cheering (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Several vehicle infotainment systems literally run Android. Android Automotive is an entire branch dedicated to being an entire vehicle infotainment system... separate from Android Auto on your phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    My car has Android automotive. If you're driving 8 hours a day, it's better than what you have in your Android or Apple phone. Everything's right there and it integrates very nicely with the car. However, like most people, you're only driving for a little bit to work and then your car just sits there. It's not worth it. Your phone already has everything you want on it and you just want your phone to connect and do things. I hate that in my car if I say hey Google my car jumps in sorry you need a subscription- my phone already has my subscription I don't want a second one. If I remember I can turn on the Wi-Fi on my hotspot on my phone, but why bother? I don't even want my car to respond here. I just want my phone which is right there and already can respond and do everything. Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That's something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don't know.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Oh the things I could rant on about Android Automotive, and about legacy automakers integrating "smart" things poorly.

    Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That’s something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don’t know.

    If you want to be even more unreasonably angered about this... I currently drive a Honda Prologue, which uses GM's Ultima EV platform. The Play Store even shows the car "device" as a "GM Aegean". It supports Android Auto. Even puts it in the little app window as if the system wasn't already running Android Automotive. Regular Android Auto just like on any other vehicle... inside Android Automotive. They could do it, they chose not to.

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