Seems to me that CarPlay makes it a bit more future proof. Apple will just have to make sure their new phones and iOS updates are compatible with older cars. That doesn’t seem to be that tall a lift. We all know how far mfgs are quick to drop support for software updates to their cars. Geez, my ‘19 eGolf already lost telematic support.
All the companies want you to subscribe to their services, I’m kinda done with that crazy fragmentation and want to see modular and repairable systems.
Some people should learn the Kano Model befo4e taking decision: your last paragraph is defo a must have feature.
Maybe i was already burned by the fact that being at BlackBerry was supposed to be a plus but i found this view very odd: “the dealership network plays a huge part in the whole ecosystem, and they play a huge part and add tremendous value to our customers”. Dealership’s add value to the customer? Really? They are the blight of the car industry and result in just increased costs for the consumer. I dunno maybe its just me - but one thing, even though i despise Elon, that i love about my Tesla experience is that they dropped the car off at my door and they perform mobile service. Dealerships will never let that happen.
Ok that was a bit ranty sorry…
“Of course, you can opt out on all of this stuff if you don’t want to, but if you want dynamic insurance, for example, that’s paid for by how safe a driver you are and you want coaching and we can say, “Hey, listen, you’re a 45 percent driver. If you leave another five meters between you and the car in front and you do this and you do that, your insurance premium will come down.” That’s a dynamic insurance premium. You don’t pay it once a year.”
The problem with an algoritm deciding how “safe” you are is that, in addition to it almost always being opaque, is that it is currently necessarily immature. My Tesla, for example, is extremely over-cautious, braking suddenly for a car crosssing way in front of me. That’s the kind of driving that’s a cause of more rear-end collisions, for example. The point is that the kind of driving it rewards isn’t meaningfully “safer”, just over-cautious and annoying to other, more mature drivers.
Another way to explain this is to observe how the Tesla autopilot works- in general, it drives like a 14 year-old driver: tentative at times, over-correcting at others, becoming confused at unexpected situations like lanes lines suddenly going away, slowing excessively for corners (and worse, crossing the yellow do-not-pass lines on some turns!, thereby actively trying to kill you) and in general, not smooth at all. This isn’t a criticism of Tesla per se, only to note that the current state of the art of Level 2 autonomy is at the level of a relatively poor driver- yet we are expected to somehow ape that behavior in order to qualify for lower rates.
In my opinion, variable premium insurance products should have to make their algorithms public, and also show, with actual data, that the behavior they are trying to incent is actually demonstrably, meaningfully, safer-- and that the additional premium is proportionally connected to that behavior. Otherwise, it becomes just another scheme to separate people from their money under the guise of “safety”.
Another way is to follow Huawei on AITO M7 S7.
Sorry, what is CarPlay?
I limited my last car purchase to “must have CarPlay”. Offer everything and let the consumer decide what they want.
It’s a mistake to them because they don’t have the software talent to implement what android auto / Apple CarPlay has. Same with all of legacy auto.