I'm not the target audience for this to begin with, but I refuse to own a car ever again that doesn't have Android Auto. What a bunch of anti-consumer bullshit. What are the odds GM starts charging a subscription fee to access apps on these vehicles?

Ladies and gentlemen... FROM the company that brought us "Cadillac CUE" (all-capacitive-buttons information controls)...

...Something nobody wants!

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯

I would literally walk out of the dealership

I still don't understand why car brands don't just use Android Automotive anyway. Most native infotainment systems in cars still look and feel like they're from the early 2000s.

That 55-inch interface they're showing off really looks like some weird 2006-ish concept.

Edit: Apparently, it's running "Google built-in" which means that this particular system is based on Android Automotive OS and it's just running some proprietary launcher on top.

Y'know what would be great?

An industry standard system that would work properly with any type of phone, tablet or other mobile device.

Back to Bluetooth and Google maps on your phone after the free data period ends. Such a bad move for consumers.

Not that I needed any more, but I’ll take reason I’ll never own a GM for $5000 Alex.

Give it some time and there will be a guide to replacing the whole thing with a raspberry pi and cheap screen from Ali express.

It will also probably have more functionality and be less awful to use.

Fuck all these proprietary systems with their locked down ecosystems. Its blatantly planned obsolescence and will cause a ton of e waste. But fuck it as long as some shareholder is happy right.

"You will own nothing and be happy". The overall push of the whole tech industry is towards the SaaS model, where you would need to pay an endless list of third party services annual subscriptions in order to have some reasonable experience.

This is the only way for them to sustain the endless growth spiral their shareholders require. Sad days for humanity.

We need a open standard fully open source alternative.

Lack of AA isn't the problem, it's the 130k for that hideous monstrosity.

No problem, there are other cars to choose from.

We'll, that's a move.

Call me crazy, but the way the bottom control screen is off centered from the central nav/infotainment bit above it looks horrible and I can't imagine buying such an expensive car with such an annoying design.

Eh. I have no CarPlay in my 2016 Prius and the proprietary system they have only makes me almost crash my car 30% of the time I use it so I can't complain.