For the record, Carplay is an application which runs on QNX, an operating system already used by most infotainment systems.

Carplay is an application that runs on Blackberry's QNX operating system... the operating system used by most infotainment systems. Apple actually has zero control whatsoever on what the carmakers do with the infotainment system when an apple device isn't paired and streaming the carplay UI to the headunit.

If you don't like carplay, don't use it. The car's infotainment system will function exactly like it did before if you don't pair your phone.

You literally described android auto and carplay. The only difference is your phone won't mirror it's ui exactly, it will mirror a automative optimized version.... otherwise that is EXACTLY what these are.

Considering they won that case, they weren't the only people who thought that...

Right? It makes me so mad. The number of "Good! Fuck Apple! I don't want to have to buy an iPhone to drive my car!" type comments is killing me.

" that can easily accommodate phones and tables."

Or in some cases it seems it's OEM+Apple... which if you have an Android device is kind of annoying, but hardly Apples fault.

Okay, lets remove the whole iBullshit from your argument. Android provides Android Auto, which for all intents and purposes, is the same. If you have apple bias, please just fuck off.

Carplay is not a proprietary head unit software. Almost any car that gets it will still have the same horrible "60% of the time" bluetooth support it once had, and if we're lucky they'll also have android auto.

You realize most double din units on the market that support carplay ALSO support android auto? And that apple isn't SELLING headunits, they just want to provide the UI when your phone is paired, because automakers are fucking horrible at UI design.

If your complaint is touchscreens in cars... that's fair. However there's no proprietary/exclusiveness with Android Auto, Carplay, or Mirrolink. Like some one else said, the auto maker just sticks them on the headunit. If you pair a device that supports one of the standards the head unit supports, you don't have to…

So, I'm not really sure I understand... they're basically using the electric motor as "first gear", and then using an engine with so much power it can accelerate the rest of the way to 250 in "second gear"?

Looks more like an Aston with weird lights to me...

okay I'll bite... What situation have you been in on public roads, where you were driving responsibly, where the intervention of DSC to stop or minimize a skid, would have made the situation worse?

Ferreri offered them in a manual for a while. In 2012 they sold a whole 2 of them. Two.

oh right, I forgot that focused track car driving = all buttons on the center console out of reach.

owing more than the value of the car, due to depreciation and usually a small down payment.

And at 350/month lease the first owner would've been in 12,600 over three years... Sure you'll own a car at the end of it, but they also didn't need to worry as much about things breaking down, maintenece was done by the dealer and paid for, as well as repairs, plus a brand new car which they would've had the ability…

The viaduct isn't just unsafe, it's also hideous, and blocking tons of great views of the puget sound.