For electric carmakers that are willing to spend the money on making their built-in system great, I think it's the right decision. The integration with charging status and locations isn't something that Apple or Android offers. Because charging is a different beast than pumping gasoline, it needs to be integrated into the driving experience. Apple Maps doesn't have the vertical integration to know that the Rivan's battery's level of charge and to tell it to start preconditioning the battery to be charged when the vehicle arrives at the charging station, or to even tell the user that they need to charge in order to reach their destination or where the chargers along the way are.
What a low value piece of writing. I had to hunt around the episode to find if he describes why, etc, but couldn't be arsed wasting more than a minute of my time.
But, "AI in cars" is interesting. I guess it's already possible to build a clone of the KITT computer from the Knight Rider using LLM. (Is this a millennial reference, or a boomer one?). Although I wonder what features would make it more than a gimmick. Something like, "Michael, that Tesla has been following us for more than 15 miles. I ran the plates and it's..."
For electric carmakers that are willing to spend the money on making their built-in system great, I think it's the right decision. The integration with charging status and locations isn't something that Apple or Android offers. Because charging is a different beast than pumping gasoline, it needs to be integrated into the driving experience. Apple Maps doesn't have the vertical integration to know that the Rivan's battery's level of charge and to tell it to start preconditioning the battery to be charged when the vehicle arrives at the charging station, or to even tell the user that they need to charge in order to reach their destination or where the chargers along the way are.
Sad because, imo, CarPlay is really good. Or even if you like AndroidAuto, I assume it would be better than a non-software company's offering.
Just offer it and if the customer doesn't want to use it, they will not.
CarPlay is pretty awful in an Audi. It doesn't connect when you want it to and automatically does things when you don't.
What a low value piece of writing. I had to hunt around the episode to find if he describes why, etc, but couldn't be arsed wasting more than a minute of my time.
But, "AI in cars" is interesting. I guess it's already possible to build a clone of the KITT computer from the Knight Rider using LLM. (Is this a millennial reference, or a boomer one?). Although I wonder what features would make it more than a gimmick. Something like, "Michael, that Tesla has been following us for more than 15 miles. I ran the plates and it's..."