https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/15/audi-and-volvo-go-all-in-on-android-auto/
Interesting, wonder how this will turn out...
Interesting, wonder how this will turn out...
I agree, I think this will be great.
I also agree, but I doubt if it will go down well with the Apple Army. Lets hope it's all touch screen as well.
I just hope it loads faster... I find this latest MMI dog slow... particularly at start up.
It takes me a while before I'm able to cycle through the drive modes - which I have to do every time as it doesn't stay in dynamic!!!
I hope its better than the current one. Using android auto now seems useless apart from if you want to use spotify, I swear its lower resolution too.
Sounds great, hopefully it comes with a good touch screen so we can properly use it instead of these archaic controls in the current cars. The touch screens in the Teslas or new Volvos are way easier to use compared to the clunky spinning wheels of Audi and BMW.
I agree. In my A3 when I select the Radio it takes ages before the radio starts playing. My wife's Polo has a switch next to the touch screen. Press the switch and the radio is instantly there. I don't know what the set-up on the new Golf is like but it must be better than the Audi MMI.
As above - I don't agree. Touch screens can't be navigated by touch alone, and force you to look at the screen, interpret the information on it, move your hands to the right place and then operate the control. Looking at the screen to verify button inputs just requires you to glance at it, and then you can look back at the road while your brain processes what it saw on there, and the buttons can easily be used by touch because they are always in the same place and don't move around depending on which interface the programmers have decided to give you on any particular screen. Whenever I've had a touch screen in a hire car or similar I've hated it - especially the one in the Tesla, which is so much worse because the screen is so big you usually have to move your hands much further to get to the right bit. I test drove a Model S and while it's a fantastic car, I won't get one with a touch screen as long as I can help it.
There are a few studies that show similar things too, though it needs more study overall. I think they are dangerous and can see them being banned one day tbh.
Even the top of the range (7 series) BMWs are starting to use some touch control. No doubt that will move down to the other ranges in time.Looks like I'll be switching to BMW then when it's time for the S3 to go.
Even the top of the range (7 series) BMWs are starting to use someLooks like I'll be switching to BMW then when it's time for the S3 to go.
I have a touch screen in the current car and it's dreadful. I can't wait to get proper controls back. For example, you click the phone button on the steering wheel, the phone menu comes up on the screen, you can't navigate via the steering wheel even though you used it to initiate the thing you want, click saved contacts on the screen, then comes up the list of names, go to click the one you want to call and usually there's a bounce in the road and you click one 3 names up or down. Really frustrating. There are many examples of why it's ****, certainly a lot more than why it's good.
I'm not an apple fan boy, but I find android really tosh. So it's not something I'm getting excited about. I feel it's going the same way as Microsoft, shockingly bad in most cases but it's what's been adopted and we're now stuck with it.
Even the top of the range (7 series) BMWs are starting to use some.
I agree for the first 2-3 days perhaps, after that you have seen every screen and thus already have the layout in your head and already know where the buttons are on each screen. The good thing about touch screens is just that, once you seen it you have seen it, everything is in the same place every time that screen is up. Which means that after just a few uses you know it by heart and could do it blind. All these wheels and such for the MMI means that it is all dependant on where you start with the "selector", doing what I want could be either left or right from the start and so on.
If we want to be able to do things without looking at all it is touch screens we need.
Perhaps you should not be tring to make phone calls whilst you're driving. Using a phone 'hands free' is almost as dangerous as hand held as the mind tends to concentrate more on the one to one conversation on the phone and less on the driving. Make phone calls when you are stopped.
That looks like a cheap Chinese tablet interface.Some more info here: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/18/audi-android-custom-car-interface/
Companies really need to stop assuming that our tech needs to mimic our "smart" phones. If I wanted a touchscreen and android apps, I'd be buying a phone or a tablet, not a car.
From what I have read and seen so far the Android Auto system works using a touch screen and voice commands.Hopefully it's of more use than the Andriod Auto currently available, which I've found rather pointless in my car. Also hope they don't go the touch screen route, Or at least offer the option for both touchscreen or a controller like Mazda currently does.