OT: Internet connect cars

[Fairlight]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 06:26:50PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> 
> Our other car has all "mostly-flat" buttons for the same thing, and
> you can't even change the volume without (a) taking your eyes off
> the road, or (b) fumbling around until you find the little
> "dimpled/raised" buttons for "volume down/up".  Good luck quickly
> changing stations, however.

The touchscreen on ours is picky.  Seems I'm often mis-aligning some.
Fat fingers don't help.

> >My car stereo has BT connectivity, and it refuses to let you access the
> >contact list or manual dialing on the screen unless the car is stopped.
> >Well, it says stopped, but you can have it inching forward at like 0.25 m/h
> >and get it to relent.  But it's actually fairly strict about the phone
> >functionality.
> [...]
> 
> Which means that the passenger can't use them, either.
> 
> Our GPS came with a default setting of "can't change settings while
> the car is moving", but allowed that feature to be turned off (after
> clicking through various warning disclaimers), so that the passenger
> can change things while the car is moving.  (Yes, the driver can,
> too.  But until the hardware can distinguish between the two, that
> will have to be the case.)

You know, it's entirely possible ours has a way to change that setting on
the stereo.  The stereo manual is twice as thick as the manual for the car
itself, as I recall.  :)  I haven't read any of the stereo manual, to be
honest.  It's really intuitive.  Oh, I take that back...I did have to look
up how to delete BT devices.  And now, for the life of me, I cannot
remember how to do that.  I'll have to look it up again.

mark->
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