On Fri, 26 May 2017 21:26:03 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 5/26/2017 6:38 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2017 18:20:03 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 5/26/2017 5:48 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2017 17:31:30 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 5/26/2017 5:04 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/26/2017 4:32 PM, Leon wrote:

My wife and I have been shopping new cars lately and there is
something going on there too. Apple is showing up in a lot of new
cars these days and I understood manufacturers were reluctant to add
the Apple "Car Play" systems to their infotainment systems. I recall
when there were only about 5 car companies that offered this feature.
Now this is offered in brands that I have never heard of. I can see a
stink coming from the big suppliers of GPS software that car
manufacturers have been using. With Apple Car Play you no longer need
to buy GPS. Your Apple Phone will display the Apple Map application
on the big radio display and steer you most anywhere you want to go.

Anyway

What you said was well said and an excellent point of view!

Not just Apple. Some are using Android and the maps in mine are
provided by Google.

My car has an 11" display on the dash and also shows the next turn in
the Heads Up Display. Much nicer than any phone or small GPS can show.

Wow 11" What are you comparing that too? ;~)

Nah, he wouldn't be bragging if he knew that Teslas have a 17"
display. ;-)

Yeah... and I think some of the upper end Mercedes have a large display.



What vehicle is that on.

We have looked at an RX350 and that had a large display.

We drove a Grand Touring MX9 with a heads-up display, pretty cool.
I was surprised that the display looked like it was 6' in front of the
grill.

That's the whole point (so you don't have to change focus between the
road and instruments).

Understood but it could have looked like it was simply above the dash
also. This looked like it was about 10' away from where you are
sitting. Almost a 3D effect. But as you mentioned "focus", depth of
field remains in focus. It was the first one that I had ever seen. ;~)
I liked the road sign recognition that displays the speed limit or stop
sign in the display.


OTOH, they're also replacing rear-view mirrors
with LCD displays.

Yeah, this is available on the RX350 and for about $200 it can be had at
BestBuy for the vehicle that you drive now.

Integrating the cameras is the hard part. It really has to be built
into the vehicle to work properly.

What makes you say that? I just had a back up camera added, 8 weeks
ago, to my license plate bracket and shows up on my radio/gps screen.
Works pretty good for me.

That's one camera. The integrated units use more than one camera and
stitch the image together to get more of a "surround" view, so the
blind spots disappear.

I'd like to add a backup camera to my truck but I don't have a screen
(well, just a little 4" thing for the radio). It looks like a PITA to
do it any other way.