Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car (theverge.com) 123
Google is expanding Android Automotive from the infotainment screen into the broader non-safety "brain" of software-defined vehicles. With its new Android Automotive OS for Software-Defined Vehicles, the in-car experience will feel "much more cohesive and the latest features will reach your driveway faster," Matt Crowley, Android Automotive's group product manager, writes in a blog post. "From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," Crowley adds. The Verge reports: With its new software, Google is promising faster over-the-air software updates, better voice assistants, and more proactive vehicle maintenance alerts. Non-driving functions like climate control, lighting, and seating adjustment would fall under Android's control. And the system would move beyond basic infotainment to create a unified ecosystem for features like remote cabin conditioning, digital key management, and personalized driver profiles.
For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.
For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.
The reason I like CarPlay & Android Auto. (Score:5, Insightful)
Is that it is tied to my phone and NOT to my car.
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Yeah, I prefer cars w/o "brains" of their own!
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"I like my cars like my women!"
Broken down and leaking?
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The reason I like Android Automotive is that it's tied to my car NOT my phone. I expect my car to work 100% feature complete without another device. I expect it to work when my phone is flat, damaged, lost, or some stupid update makes it incompatible with something.
It was a killer design feature for me ever since I used it in a hire car. I pretty much made my purchasing decision after that based on which vehicles had Google Built-in. It's got all the features of you shoehorning your phone into your car + mo
Re:The reason I like CarPlay & Android Auto. (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess I'm just old fashioned, but I have buttons for those features. Physical buttons. My phone connects to the car via bluetooth just fine. I would be perfectly happy with ZERO infortaiment system and zero connection of the car to the Internet.
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Thank you...same here.
With physical controls I can easily do most things with muscle memory without having to take my eyes off the road, or if I do...it is absolutely minimal time off road.
I hook my phone up only to stream music....occasionally if I'm going som
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I guess I'm just old fashioned, but I have buttons for those features. Physical buttons. My phone connects to the car via bluetooth just fine. I would be perfectly happy with ZERO infortaiment system and zero connection of the car to the Internet.
The entrainment head on my car is the one that does Bluetooth for calls only so I have to plug in the aux for tunes and it works plenty fine enough. I just don't understand why a car needs anything more than the engine management and related software and the last thing I'd want is my car connected to the internet somehow.
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In the case of CarPlay/Android Auto, the car isn't connected to the internet. The phone is, and the car navigation screen is just another alternative output screen for the phone. That doesn't connect the car itself to the internet
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I would be perfectly happy with ZERO infortaiment system
People say this, right until they are stuck somewhere with a non-functioning phone. Do you have a map in your car? Like a physical paper copy? And a Ukulele so you can play yourself some music? People throw the word infotainment around as if they don't go into a panicked shock when they are suddenly sitting in a vehicle in silence unsure how to get to their destination with a phone that won't turn on (or has just been stolen, or dropped and broken, etc, etc).
I demand my car retain 100% of its functionality
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It's got all the features of you shoehorning your phone into your car + more, since it is properly integrated into the car it can do basic things that Android Auto and CarPlay still lack such as voice controlling your climate control or your heated seats, or mirroring the screen not onto the infotainment system but rather directly into the dash.
Those are all features that could be implemented into Android auto. Google and the auto manufacturers just need to agree on an API for the phone to be able to send commands to the head unit, which can then broadcast them on the CAN bus.
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Those are all features that could be implemented into Android auto.
They are actively working on that. But imagine how nice it would be for a common UI to work between my phone and my car when my phone is dead... the reality is I'm orders of magnitude more likely to have my phone stolen or broken than my car.
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I agree w/ that - both CarPlay & Android Auto. In my last car, which I bought before those 2 were available, I had a navigation screen, where it was maps in one mode, and choice of radio modes (AM, FM, XM, Settings, Bluetooth) in the other. That worked well, except occasionally, due to the maps being out of date: something that wouldn't have been a problem w/ either Google nor Apple maps
There is even the split screen option b/w the apps, so that one can see the map (if needed) as well as whatever st
Re: The reason I like CarPlay & Android Auto. (Score:2)
The only feature you list I'm remotely interested in is the mirroring to the dash.
But there's no reason Android auto/apple car play can't do that without deeper integration.
WRT to the other controls. Buttons please. I can afford an extra $1,000 or so to have cruise and climate control be buttons rather than voice and a screen.
I use voice to control my home HVAC, but a car is a small controlled space and buttons are far superior for that.
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Yeah Android could do that in theory, but in order to do that you'd need some very deep integration with Android Auto and the car system so that the interface is unified. I'm not sure anyone would go to the effort of doing so since 99% of that effort is the same as implementing Android Automotive, which at that point... why would they make their own system and implement their own API when they can outsource it?
WRT controls I agree. Buttons need to exist (and they do on my car too). But my demand here is to
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Why would the infotainment system be obsolete? It's not like the system stops working just because it doesn't have the latest shiny patch.
Fun fact my car's Android Automotive version got an update yesterday. ... to Android 13... It was applied to the 2023 year models and later only. My friend has the 2019 version of the same car, his system still runs Android 11. Still runs, just fine. Has all the same functionality.
wasn't too long ago a bunch of people were pissed at Disney for moving to HEVC-only, which broke playback in their somewhat old cars. You know who wasn't pissed? Anyone running the videos off their phones.
So you're saying that no one should be pissed since zero functionality was lost because ever
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Re: The reason I like CarPlay & Android Auto. (Score:3)
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It's great that individual life is saved, however the surveillance of every car and driver is the cost. They could save a lot of lives if they had cameras in every house to know when we fall. They could chip us to watch our heart rate and that would save lives and someone maybe even me would benefit. In the end the price of loss of privacy is too great and surveillance is nobodies friend.
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it probably is e-sim also you couldn't even take it out.
i will just stick to classic cars of the early 2010s, old like me.
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In the EU the SIM in mandatory because of the automatic emergency calling system. If your car ends up upsidedown with you knocked out, you'll be thankful to wake up in a hospital because of it.
It is mandatory for vehicle vendors to provide but not mandatory to use. The radio antenna can simply be grounded out, radio board removed or relevant fuse pulled.
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Android Automotive is separate to those two though. It runs on the car's computer system. Vehicles with it are actually quite good by the standards of in-car systems. You get Google Maps for navigation, and a reasonably good UI that tends to be updated regularly.
It's not a great choice - Android Automotive or the manufacturer's own thing which is probably based on Android anyway - but if forced to make it I'd take the former.
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how is the security.
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Probably better than the car manufacturer's security.
"Proactive Maintenance Reminders" (Score:4, Insightful)
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Get ready for those!
And they can only be cleared at a dealership.
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Okay, but what happens when you don't have the budget for it at the time? Usually, I would fix just the critical things, but kick other items down the road. But if the car nags me, that would make it a pretty unpleasant experience
Re: "Proactive Maintenance Reminders" (Score:2)
Cars already do this. I'm not sure why they're acting like it's new.
My 2006 Honda lets me know when it's time for service starting a few thousand miles early.
Nope (Score:4, Insightful)
You idiots are going the wrong direction. I don't need my "digital life" to follow me around in the "brains" of my car.
Make it Shitty! (Score:2)
https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ [youtu.be]
What else would you expect from Google?
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https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ [youtu.be]
What else would you expect from Google?
I don't expect any less than ignorance on Slashdot. As a user of Android Automotive (google built-in) it has to be the least enshittified product Google has released to date, and every update seems to add improvements. The most recent one added sync of the battery status from Google built-in to Google maps so when I search for something on my phone it already tells me how much battery I'll have when I get there and back and recommends where to stop to charge. No more nasty surprises when I sit in the seat a
Re: Make it Shitty! (Score:3)
Are you kidding ? Killing products is rather shitty, and they have done tons of that.
For something they haven't killed, Maps seems to always give priority to paid placement. So, when i want to Home depot, the first choice is 40 miles away. I wish i was kidding. But this is a pattern.
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Are you kidding ? Killing products is rather shitty, and they have done tons of that.
Enshittification has a defined meaning, not just what you don't like. Completely killing a product is not enshittification. You ceasing to have the product feels shit, but you're not suddenly having an inferior version of the same thing due to the vendor locking you in and abusing you.
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Is this the cars map's, because when I pull out my phone, open Google Maps, and type something, I can easily see all the options in the entire region, with the list starting with the closest possibly option.
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There is no "getting bad". The updates are entirely pushed by the car vendors themselves, these people have had car owners locked in since the first car needed a firmware update.
Android Automotive is not a phone app. If you're worried about enshittification you should be more concerned about Android Auto / Carplay.
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You idiots are going the wrong direction. I don't need my "digital life" to follow me around in the "brains" of my car.
Except the market is literally disagreeing with you, where virtually everyone who can already uses Android Auto or CarPlay in an attempt to make the car smarter.
But really you should reserve judgement before you comment. If I go back through your post history will I find you criticising the infotainment systems of cars? Will I find you criticising that Chevy was dropping Android Auto support? If so this here is the perfect solution for you: a proper designed interface with all the benefits of the phone link
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Slate is releasing a vehicle without a screen soon. If the price doesn't balloon, I expect it to be a massive success.
Millions of people are sitting on the sidelines of the US auto market, unattracted to the overweight offerings that have crowded out all else. Manufacturers just can't figure out why units aren't moving.
"Manufacturers aren't building it" doesn't necessarily mean "people don't want it". I get the feeling that the simple people wanting a simple car, aren't particularly loud about it. They're n
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People wanting a simple car, like me, are holding on to our old "dumb" vehicles far longer than Detroit would like. In my case my Tacoma truckette is 24 years old, RWD, 5-speed, with the smallest 4-banger Toyota sold, and it's still more truck than 75% of pickup owners in the US actually need. There is nothing like it on the US market today, and people leave notes on my windshield all the time asking if I want to sell it. On the other hand, I could go to Peru or Indonesia and buy a similar new vehicle ri
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I'm driving an 02 Ranger. It's been kept up, new cylinder heads, new transmission, etc, but closing in on 200,000 miles now. I'd like to get something that requires a bit less maintenance. Enter EV...
Barring any massive quality issues or overshooting the price point, I expect to end up with a Slate. Hoping it gets released before the next big repair on the Ranger.
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Yep and the same idiots in the USA drive SUVs and trucks just to get groceries. Let gas prices hit $10. They deserve it for their poor buying decisions.
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Oh, I wouldn't move to stop you from driving those sorts of vehicles but at the same time, I'm quite happy to end fuel subsidies. I really just assume everyone that does drive those vehicles must be richer then me but at the end of the day, you can spend your money however you like.
It's quite ironic though, that the people that cry most over gas prices also drive the most inefficient vehicles possible and the majority of them are not using it for actual work. They are pavement queens that could see all thei
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You idiots are going the wrong direction. I don't need my "digital life" to follow me around in the "brains" of my car.
I don't need a "digital life" to follow me (which is why I don't do social media on my actual phone anyway), but it is convenient to have the phone apps, such as Waze or Maps on the dashboard navigation screen while I drive. And there are other things as well: I was a SiriusXM subscriber, and while I could get it from the car stereo system, there was no way I could, say, pause a program if I left the car and returned and wanted to resume. But on the XM app on my phone, I could, which is why I usually used
Hell to the Nah (Score:1)
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That would be quite hilarious if you ask me. The disruption would be massive.
Of course, I'd equally like to see the Internet just die for a week, just for the the laughs. It would be fun watching people freak the fuck out over their precision little devices not working.
Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score:3)
The new Gemini voice integration with Android Auto is terrible.
It knows less than the old voice assistant, is much more verbose and can't read/remember preferences for apps like spotify for music and google maps for maps.
A truly awful experience.
Re:Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score:4, Informative)
All I want it to do is find gas stations ahead of me in the direction I'm travelling.
There are zero cases where I want to turn around and backtrack my path unless there are no other options.
Repeat for "fast food ahead of me", "starbucks ahead of me", etc.
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All I want it to do is find gas stations ahead of me in the direction I'm travelling.
There are zero cases where I want to turn around and backtrack my path unless there are no other options.
Repeat for "fast food ahead of me", "starbucks ahead of me", etc.
Mine always orders by detour time regardless of direction, has this changed?
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This is clearly not universal. I have no problem telling Google to find a charger on route and it then goes through the list asking "there's one in xkm, do you want to stop at that one?"
That's actually a bigger problem. Google is so into experimenting on users that the user experience isn't consistent.
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Absolutely not (Score:2, Insightful)
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Wait until the HUD displays ads while you're stopped at a red light, when you start your car, when you turn off the engine, etc.
If these were self-driving cars, it would be different, but I'd cut the antenna wires before getting home from the dealer.
Moving (Score:4, Funny)
The word you are looking for is metastasizing.
What could go wrong? (Score:4, Insightful)
What could go wrong?
There's already a movie about that, The Fate of the Furious (2017): The swarm of drone cars, not the harpooning-a-car-like-a-whale scene.
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Nothing. This product has been on the market for 9 years already and has a good track record. Also your car is already a computer on wheels with all the things you list. The question is do you trust Google, a company of software engineers, or BMW, a company whose infotainment systems would be a massive improvement if you just gave it to AI and fired everyone else.
Another case of so much "No". (Score:5, Insightful)
"From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," ...
(a) I don't like "voice experiences" and try not to use them.
(b) I don't want my car nagging me about recommended maintenance - or anything really.
(c) I have a minimal "digital life" and don't want my car(s) involved with that, especially as an "extension" - whatever that means here..
I'm not a Luddite, but don't need or want every part of my life integrated, especially as Google (and/or others) will be trying to track and monetize it. There's nothing wrong with compartmentalizing things.
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It's not bad to be a luddite. The original Luddites were correct in their belief that new machines were going to make their lives worse, and to *notice* that a new machine will make your life worse and refuse to use it and advocate against its use is an excellent thing to do.
New technologies can be wonderful. But if they are, it is not *because* they are new, but because they make our lives better than they were. Our cars knowing who we hooked up with last weekend is not that.
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Yep, and eventually they were.
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(a) I don't like "voice experiences" and try not to use them.
Yes you prefer to use touch screens I guess to distract you and kill people rather than using a simple voice instruction?
I have a 2001 Honda Civic and 2002 Honda CR-V with 134k and 62k miles respectively (both w/manual transmissions) and neither has any touch screens, just buttons, knobs and levers that can all be operated w/o looking at them.
(b) I don't want my car nagging me about recommended maintenance - or anything really.
Your car ends up on Youtube and Tiktok when your mechanic makes a video saying "look at what this customer did, he thinks he knows better than ignoring the car maintenance, he's gonna complain about the cost."
Both vehicles are in excellent condition and get regular service, but that doesn't always coincide with the recommended time/mileage frames recommended by Honda as I don't drive them that much. (The CR-V was my wife's and she died in 2006.)
(c) I have a minimal "digital life" and don't want my car(s) involved with that, especially as an "extension" - whatever that means here..
It means when you do a Google search for a restaurant it actually shows up as top suggestion in your map when you get in on your car. Maybe not for you, but then some people hate the idea of a TV remote control as well and prefer to get up to change the channel.
Ya, I don't google search restaurants, I know
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I have a 2001 Honda Civic and 2002 Honda CR-V with 134k and 62k miles respectively (both w/manual transmissions) and neither has any touch screens, just buttons, knobs and levers that can all be operated w/o looking at them.
So you're ARE a luddite.
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I have a 2019 Honda Insight. While it does have a touch screen for some features, all the important ones are physical knobs or limbs (stalks? idk the term here). My seat heater, AC/heater, turn signals, lights, windshield wipers, steering wheel tilt, volume control, back and forth buttons for music and windows all have physical controls. I also have many controls on the steering wheel, such as to answer a phone call or adjust volume. It's great.
I almost never need the touch screen while driving unless I wan
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Dude, seriously. A bad voice command center is just as distracting as a touch screen because you keep glancing over at the screen to see if it accepted the command or not, growing increasingly frustrated when it doesn't.
Personally I prefer physical buttons that I can dial up and down without taking my eyes off the road, but you do you.
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a. I use touch screens at the start of a trip, or at stops. Doesn't endanger anyone. Don't, and won't use voice commands
b. I generally do a good job maintaining my car. The recommended was every 6000 miles, I do it every 5000. Sometimes, if something comes up in the vehicle check, then depending on how critical it is and how much it cost, I may defer it to a future service
c. Sometimes, if I'm unfamiliar w/ a place, I might search for a restaurant. But otherwise, I usually know where to go, and
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Bro you are going off the hook here. Ease up. He didn't say any of that stuff. Maybe guy is a competent mechanic and likes physical buttons and doesn't need his car to be a "smart car".
Thanks! Don't know why that guy went off on me.
Also, I've talked with several people who like cars the way they used to be - buttons, knobs, etc and fewer gadgets. I'm also not a fan of keyless ignition, which now seems to be everywhere -- I've rarely even used the keyless entry fobs on my current cars. Don't get me wrong, there have been many safety improvements since my cars were built in 2001 and 2002, but I still like mine the way they are and I like manual shifting. And they've both been paid of
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I just leave my 2002 truckette unlocked. If someone wants the change in the ashtray I'd prefer if they didn't break the window to get it.
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I LOVE my keyless entry. Mine is setup so I just put my hand under the door handle and it unlocks for me. My keys never leave my pocket. I do have to change the battery out every so often but that's super easy to do and the car tells me with plenty of advanced notice. I also have a backup fob and inside of the fob is a key that allows me to access the car if the fob died, though I'm not sure how the car would start if the fob is dead, as it's push to start. Still, I just don't let the fob die which is triv
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I LOVE my keyless entry.
I don't mind an optional fob to open the door, though I rarely use mine. I don't like it being required (no door key) and I don't like keyless ignition.
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I don't like it being required (no door key)
If you can name a car that has no door key, you'll have found an edge case in the industry. Virtually all of them have a key hidden in the fob.
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I don't like keyless ignition either. The last time I asked Subaru, they told me that they provide models w/ keys if requested
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My son is an aspiring mechanic and I want him to succeed, so I've helped him learn (and learned at the same time myself). We did his first engine swap when he was 14 and now at 17 we've done several.
Nice and a good father/son activity.
I have always been mechanically inclined and started with a used Kawasaki G5 100, with its engine in pieces, that my mom said I could have because she didn't think I could get it back together. Silly mom didn't know about official service manuals. Then it was my first car, a used '69 VW Beetle - basically one wrench, four 17mm (I think) bolts behind the fan housing (that are almost impossible to reach, designers should be forced to work on their creations), a tug on
Well this is going to be a disaster (Score:5, Insightful)
The issue here is that Google is probably going to find that they're not making as much money off of the data as they hoped or thought so they're going to start cutting corners and the software is going to start to suck.
Meanwhile Facebook is still out there buying up laws that require age verification for basically everything. This is because there is now so much AI slop and so many bot swarms that their advertisers are forced to confront the reality that advertising on Facebook or buying Facebook data isn't very useful. So they want to have a way to perfectly track you and tell whether you're a bot or not so that the data remains valuable.
So we can look forward to having the log into our cars and be completely tracked just like every other aspect of our digital Life. Because that's fun.
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This product has been in active use for 9 years now.
The issue here is that Google is probably going to find that they're not making as much money off of the data as they hoped or thought so they're going to start cutting corners and the software is going to start to suck.
The update needs to be pushed by car company. Google can abandon all they want, it's not going to affect you beyond not getting some shiny new feature. Yes if you're a GenZ this may hurt your feelings. What a disaster.
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Depends. If the car software is feature complete then sure. But it is not uncommon for this kind of software to either have bugs or for features you paid for to be missing because the software wasn't finished.
And yet you're postulating something that effectively is not heard of in the auto industry. Not having the latest shiny != not being feature complete. You're making up scenarios which don't exist to help bolster an argument that isn't standing on its own.
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We should wait and see if that criticism is relevant before making it.
uh no (Score:2)
Everything they are talking about is still in the infotainment system, which is allowed to send some limited data to the cluster.
How long until (Score:2)
there are ads?
Your vehicle ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Android Automotive has updates exclusively pushed by the vehicle manufacturer and doesn't stop working simply because you don't have the latest shiny thing installed.
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So Ford will decide that any car older than 5 years needs to be replaced and start nagging you every time you drive. Since they'll be able to track every Ford they sell now they can say, "Doesn't that new F-150 next to you look better than your old truck? Better upgrade before your friends think you're too broke to buy a new one!" For that matter, if they monitor your credit they'll know when you've finished paying it off so they can market you even more efficiently! Isn't that great?
endless enshittification (Score:1)
Sweet, hackable cars that won't go when it's the most important possible time that they go, such as IN AN EMERGENCY
it's fine, all capitalists are idiots and their products will not survive what's coming
No thanks (Score:2, Insightful)
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Who would've thought we'd yearn for the days of "dumb" systems that operated without issue and displayed your song media?
Lots of people. I am sorry that you were lead astray by marketers, but people have always loved tools that do one thing and do it very well. A car is a tool. It is mostly used to get a person from here to there. The more stuff you add to that, the more expensive each trip is to make. In this particular instance, the cost is my attention. I do not want to pay. I want to get from here to there without any other issues nagging at me.
I frequently drive with no audio stimulation whatsoever. The act of driving it
All I want (Score:2)
Cohesive eh? (Score:2)
will feel "much more cohesive
You misspelled "intrusive".
'Your car has great new features.' (Score:2)
- Oh that feature? It was removed because our data showed only 49% of people used it.
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Google is not in control of that. Android Automotive updates need to be customised and pushed out by the car manufacturer. I've seen a notification to get an update pushed maybe twice since I've owned it, and none of them have had any significant feature changes.
Did anybody ask for this? (Score:2)
More shit getting rammed down our throats. Who wants this? I for one want my car to STFU and let me get from A to B.
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Is this true? (Score:3)
"For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding."
It seems like this statement is not true. Instead of providing a thin client for the phone, the car makers are going to duplicate the phone software in the car. This sounds far more expensive in terms of software development costs. Also, this has no effect on branding. The car is already heavily branded with the car make. I don't think the car makers care about sharing branding with Google. Instead, what matters to car makers is on-going subscription revenue, because that is what will justify the additional development costs.
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It seems like this statement is not true. Instead of providing a thin client for the phone, the car makers are going to duplicate the phone software in the car.
No they aren't. There's zero cars on the market that operate as a thin client for the phone. No one would buy a car that can't do the basics without a phone, they are already duplicating everything as it is. All this does is offload things to Google that the manufacturer no longer needs to do.
It's objectively cheaper which is why quite a lot of manufacturers have moved to it already (this product has existed for 9 years already).
Also, this has no effect on branding. The car is already heavily branded with the car make.
No you misunderstood the comment. The comment was that rather having to create
Noooooo!!!!! (Score:2)
... the in-car experience will feel "much more cohesive and the latest features will reach your driveway faster," ...
.. the in-car experience will feel "much more invasive and the latest advertising will reach your eyes and ears faster," ...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Fuck Google with a running chainsaw, sideways. Google needs to Just. Fucking. DIE!
Fuck That (Score:2)
I don't want any built in cohesive horseshit.
I want an interface into the hardware, accessible via Bluetooth and USB, and nothing else.
Everything on the phone! Easily updatable, over the air. Relatively inexpensive to replace entirely. My data stays with me.
The car should be the presentation layer, screen, speakers, buttons, and nothing else.
Arrogant marketing-speak for a thing I don't want. (Score:2)
F- off Crowley. Even if you didn't sound like a walking ad, that's something I actively don't want from my car.
Now Google (Score:2)
Can track your car and get metrics on your location just like cell phone companies. Better to get the data directly from the consumer then have to go through the cell phone companies to buy the data.
I guess I have weird goals (Score:2)
I want my car (or any other form of transportation) to get me from A to B as cheaply and reliably as possible and in reasonable comfort. I don't want "infotainment". I don't want the car to be "smart". I don't want anyone tracking me. Just A to B, cheaply, reliably and comfortably.
WTF is wrong with corporations nowadays?
Android Auto Would be a No (Score:2)