Adding android auto is a more complicated thing than most would guess. The reason that AA didn’t get added to Toyotas when CarPlay was added was due to some privacy concerns/disagreements between Toyota and Google. Depending how BMW implemented AA in idrive 7, that implementation may not have been within the agreement…

It’s probably that Toyota did not want to spend money on a slightly different version of iDrive 7 just for one car, especially since they are mentioning that the lack of Android auto is not a big issue, apparently. Or maybe it’s just going to happen next year for all sort of reasons.

“Sport coupe will not get Android auto, what’s the point of that dumb car”

Why on earth does a company that’s essentially just an App need 26,900 actual employees

And make sure his tetanus is up to date. 

I haven’t really been enjoying Jalopnik lately - doesn’t seem to always have the latest news, doesn’t seem to have the personality it once did. Autoplaying videos suck.

Welcome.  Please use your influence to fix the current Kinja mess.  Also keep things weird here.

Hm. Looks promising. Might have to re-up my Jalopnik Gold subscription.

Those would be for an electromagnetic coil, operating as an induction loop. https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regulatory-devices/how-does-a-traffic-light-detect-that-a-car-has-pulled-up-and-is-waiting-for-the-light-to-change.htm

Where do you live that still has pressure plates to trigger the lights? Most intersections here (Greater Vancouver) have moved to an optical system (easier to calculate traffic volumes) and the older intersections have the magnetic coils. I haven’t seen a pressure plate sensor in 20 years, at least not for an…

“Politicians just need to speak the truth.”

i dunno, but i doubt it. we are a nation of middlemen. i’m sure there’s some fake bank that Hertz set up in Grand Cayman that will just stop paying their P.O. Box rental and disappear in a cloud of hahahahafuckyou debt.

More like I know what I’m on the hook for

I’m not sure if you were suggesting this, but as far as I know it is as yet inconclusive whether recovery equals immunity. If we have to wait for a vaccine then we could be waiting quite a while.

There’s some deals on luxury cars, but sports cars and they know what they got.

Yup, the ship is rapidly sinking and the idiots talking about reopening stuff are just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

Huh. I wonder if there are some sweet deals to be had on cars in their Exotic or Adrenaline Collection?

This is a Truck Yeah article right?

Trucks (and crossovers) are big, comfortable, skirt CAFE, and don’t get horrible mileage anymore. They also cruise at highway speeds without issue. They will sell regardless of how “cool” they are. Wagons and minivans were never cool, they provided cheap practicality for families, which is why their popularity went…

A lot going on here: