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Re: "I drove across the US, and Google Auto was a disaster"
I tried it on a campervan we rented and ended up disconnecting the Android Auto function. I could only have my music through Spotify (AntennaPod was out of the question for some reason?) and the GPS consumed my phone's battery while disconnecting every now and then.
It is a hot pile of garbage. We ended up using the infotaintment's GPS (a trusty Tomtom software, by the way) and the classic Bluetooth music.
Oh, and even then, it would lay a gray unresponsive windown that was annoying and prompted a couple reboots that were unnecesary. Horrible crap.
2023-10-02 · 4 months ago
I drove across the US, and Google Auto was a disaster — Decades ago I had a GPS navigator, and I thought it was pretty bad. But it was a paradise compared to Google Auto running on my Moto G Play in conjunction to the Sony XAV-AX5000 (which came with my used car). This combination results in a truly dangerous road experience. I was also trying to listen to podcasts, which added yet another layer of horribleness to the experience. Let me try to summarize what happened: First, my tablet had a...