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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I HATE android auto... it is constantly crashing. I wish they would just QA the software or something.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more likely that auto manufacturers put the oldest shittest slowest chips in cars that crash constantly because they can't handle any load at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't the whole point of android auto that it uses your phone and the display is just an external display when in that mode?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still requires overhead and a non-zero number of head units are built on, this may shock you, Android.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My experience has been that anything on QNX works fine, and anything else is hit or miss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you find what platforms run on QNX? I'd prefer that on my car over other options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You'd have to look it up for your make and model, but previous gen Hyundai Kia Genesis tend to run on QNX. Don't know what the new gen runs on.

Apparently some head units even run Linux!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hyundai Mobis head units for Kia run on Android 11 from what I've seen. Unless they've changed to QNX

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use android auto in numerous rental cars. Some head units are so slow to process taps or menu selections that it is pretty much unusable.

The normal headunit UI is generally ok, so either there's a whole lot of overhead for android auto, or some programmer simply dropped the base example implementation of it into the system and did zero work at optimising it.

Personally, I'm betting that it's the latter. "Supports Android Auto" box has been ticked on the feature sheet, send it.