In dash touchscreen

[popeyemth]

2016 Silverado with touch screen in dash.
Using maps on iPhone connected to USB port on truck, IMAPs works great on touchscreen.
What I would like to do is show Googlemaps on the dash screen but can't see how to get it to switch.
Help,please

[Cloud_Dancer]

"Feb 15, 2017 - 2016 Was the Deadliest Year on American Roads in Nearly a Decade ... that as many as 40,000 people died in motor vehicles crashes last year, a 6% rise from 2015. If those ... Crashes result in the very real cost of human life."

[GordonThree]

Fubeca wrote:
It is a little ironic that many states are passing very strict phone usage laws and at the same time manufacturers are rushing to make cars more like the phones being outlawed.

It is illegal to interact with a phone - but okay to do the exact same thing on the car's touchscreen. Seems kind of weird.

knee-jerk laws and the lobbying platform doesn't oppose "the ban"

if a Senator wanted to ban the use of Big Macs or Whoppers while driving, the lobbying platform might not so eagerly agree.

[WTP-GC]

Fubeca wrote:
It is a little ironic that many states are passing very strict phone usage laws and at the same time manufacturers are rushing to make cars more like the phones being outlawed.

It is illegal to interact with a phone - but okay to do the exact same thing on the car's touchscreen. Seems kind of weird.

Not that I've seen every touch-screen platform, but I'm not aware of any unit that allows you to type-text or type-email. You can dial by typing or use voice-to-text, but most functions are otherwise limited.

[Fubeca]

It is a little ironic that many states are passing very strict phone usage laws and at the same time manufacturers are rushing to make cars more like the phones being outlawed.

It is illegal to interact with a phone - but okay to do the exact same thing on the car's touchscreen. Seems kind of weird.

[Cloud_Dancer]

Bobbo wrote:

steveh27 wrote:
A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

To paraphrase, "just don't touch."

I agree. Whenever I want to learn something new, on our 2016 Cadillac's touch screen, for the purpose of MY safety I park in the shade and learn.

[GordonThree]

Drivers will always find something to distract themselves... before phones it was the radio, or eating, or smoking, or kids in the back, or reading a book / newspaper.

[steveh27]

Grit dog wrote:

steveh27 wrote:
A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

No more than using your phone, or following directions on a paper map.
Anything besides driving is a distraction to driving. But imo a touch screen and steering wheel controls are less of a distraction for all the tasks we do while "driving."

Using phones while driving should be illegal everywhere.

[Grit_dog]

steveh27 wrote:
A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

No more than using your phone, or following directions on a paper map.
Anything besides driving is a distraction to driving. But imo a touch screen and steering wheel controls are less of a distraction for all the tasks we do while "driving."

[Bobbo]

steveh27 wrote:
A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

To paraphrase, "just don't touch."

[WTP-GC]

steveh27 wrote:
A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

well you better not try to buy any new car then, because touchscreens are in virtually every vehicle these days.

[CarolynandBob]

I have a 6S and a F350. I wish I could use the google map. Imap has steered us wrong many times.

I have my phone attached to a holder on the dash and use google maps. Sinc map in the ford sucks too.

[steveh27]

A touchscreen while driving seems like it could be a distraction from the road.

[popeyemth]

hedge wrote:
I'll have to look again, more than likely I'm wrong. Didn't care for the carplay thing so I didn't really pay much attention. I thought I saw the app but maybe it was the apple maps app... which makes more sense.

Sorry to have misled anyone.

Thanks for taking time to try to help me
I assure you I'm not offended

[hedge]

I'll have to look again, more than likely I'm wrong. Didn't care for the carplay thing so I didn't really pay much attention. I thought I saw the app but maybe it was the apple maps app... which makes more sense.

Sorry to have misled anyone.