Apple Announces CarPlay

[Davydd]

Apple announced CarPlay which integrates the iPhone with your dash. It will first come out on selected 2014 cars (Mercedes Benz and Volvo) and will expand to other manufacturers.

Here is Apple's official webpage on it.

CarPlay

I will be interested if they include in on MB Sprinters soon.

[Happytraveler]

Watch this: Apple's CarPlay running in a Volvo concept car.

[mlts22]

From what I read, it works with the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, and the iPhone 5s. There are many Android models out there.

If it works well with Android stuff, and this can be done, fine... my Microsoft SYNC head on my F-150 works well with Android and iOS, with every model of phone I've thrown at it. However, I have a feeling Apple will go the route of only their devices will work with it at all, or if Android devices are even allowed to communicate, it will be a ridiculously limited feature set. If this is the case, I rather just have a generic Bluetooth head that can handle MP3 playback and hands-free calling.

Of course, people are saying that car makers better line up to get CarPlay, or line up for a government bailout... Alpine and other stereo makers better up their game or else they won't be around.

[schneid]

Seems like a big mistake to me. Being an Android guy I would not by an Apple car and I imagine that is true the other way. No way I'd buy into something that was incompatible with the rest of my stuff.

[wa8yxm]

The only advantage I see to this is that it appears to be a law work-around. I mean my daughter's old Ghetto beater car has a radio (After market) with an I-Interface (that does not work but I may fix that in a couple months) plus an "AUX-IN" that does work with her I-Phone.

But there are now laws in many areas prohibiting any hand held electronics, (Except for 2-way radios used by police, Hams, Taxi drivers, and many others, which I can tell you are not nearly as distracting as a phone in the hand) so the ability to put the "I" in a glove box and operate it off the vehicles' touch screen (The absolute worst idea any auto maker ever had) gets around this law,, and still provides all the distraction a driver needs to crash and burn.

That is not a feature I will desire in a car.

[SCVJeff]

If you choose to ignore the phone entirely while driving, that's up to you. I use the iPhone with Ford's sync system all the time and NEVER take my eyes off the road. One feel-touch button for Siri and she takes care of everything including reading the incoming response.

Far less distracting than a passenger

[fj12ryder]

I did read it and I quote: "Carplay takes the things you want to do with your Iphone while driving and puts them right on your car's built-in display". Voice control and/or "It also works with your car’s controls — knobs, buttons, or touchscreen."

Yep, I read it. Like Tom and Ray say, "Hang up and drive!!".

[JN_B]

fj12ryder wrote:
"Send and receive messages"

Wonderful, just what we need: even more distractions from that tedious business of driving.

Did you even read the link?

Voice dictated..

No different than talking to the passenger.

Which by the way, has been in ford's sync system (amongst others) for years.

Apple was smart to get on board with an OEM. But I think if they went after the aftermarket, they would have a better idea.

[fj12ryder]

"Send and receive messages"

Wonderful, just what we need: even more distractions from that tedious business of driving.