The ability to use hands free “Hey Siri” to send a text, make a phone call, play music, and plot a course in Maps has become invaluable to me. I spend almost an hour driving to work each morning and between an hour and a half and three hours (traffic-depending) driving back home and running...
At this point, I’m still in the camp that most CarPlay issues are the fault of automakers and not Apple. When implemented on a well thought out aftermarket head unit, CarPlay is extremely stable and has very few issues. When implemented on a stock infotainment system, CarPlay is a mess and buggy...
I would have to argue that most of that is the fault of bad head unit design and poor CarPlay integration. It’s well know that the infotainment system in most cars isn’t very good. My head unit is an aftermarket Sony that handles CarPlay better than most, if not all, stock infotainment head...