OT: Internet connect cars

[Brian K. White]

On 8/13/2015 6:38 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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->
>


Recent FB post from a friend:

"My sister's new car just told me to stop playing with my phone so I can 
attend to changing road conditions. Uh ... passenger!"

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bkw