Business Insider’s reporter and his disastrous experience with GM’s Blazer including the infotainment system:::When the Chevrolet Blazer EV stranded Kevin Williams, a 7-hour drive turned into a 14-hour ordeal.
death to “infotainment” systems
Infotainment is made up bullshit. Its just a corporate spam center.
These software-defined vehicles need way more work and polish put into them IMO, but to be honest I’d rather these companies just give us something basic, simple, and electric that works reliably.
Toyota did it with the Prius vehicles, particularly the older models, can’t be that hard?
Also infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality, particularly if they can’t be turned off in the case of this article - only option left to the user is a “deep sleep” that might fix the problem if the vehicle is locked for 5 minutes 🤦♂️
infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality
Particularly and especially when the infotainment system has an always-on cellular connection. Wired ran a story way back in 2015 that hackers had managed to gain control of (I wanna say) a Dodge (it was a Stellantis group car, can’t recall which one specifically) and were able to control not only convenience features of the car like lights, wipers, and stereo, but to disable the transmission completely. All it takes is one flaw or zero-day.
Toyota did it with the Prius vehicles, particularly the older models, can’t be that hard?
Its looking like Toyota’s efforts to make the Prius so reliable was to sell more ICE engines. They have no desire to abandon ICE and go whole hog into EVs. Sadly it looks like Honda is the same.
I didn’t realize “infotainment” got a new definition.
Clearly none of you have ever driven a luxury car and used it’s infotainment. Outside of shitty map updates(which is not a thing on many brands now) many of them are quite good.
That being said the economy brands should be focusing on basics like screen/touch latency and shitty handling of even basic Android Auto. My Subaru is a dumpster fire and the latest update has made Android Auto handshake a mess. Broke my wifes phone.
My wife has a Subaru and an iPhone, myself being an android user. It is laughable how bad the android auto fits into her infotainment center. Half the screen is just dead space.
I know the allure and up-their-own-ass of iPhones makes it seem like such a premium product, but companies really shouldn’t also buy into it and make android auto be a disaster in their vehicles.
