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Business Insider's reporter and his disastrous experience with GM's Blazer including the infotainment system: (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Business Insider's reporter and his disastrous experience with GM's Blazer including the infotainment system:::When the Chevrolet Blazer EV stranded Kevin Williams, a 7-hour drive turned into a 14-hour ordeal.

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[–] trackindakraken@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow. I hope, for Chevy's sake, it's just software glitches that can be quickly solved with some updates.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago

Frankly, they should really just abandon the custom infotainment crap and just go back to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

death to "infotainment" systems

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

These software-defined vehicles need way more work and polish put into them IMO, but to be honest I'd rather these companies just give us something basic, simple, and electric that works reliably.

Toyota did it with the Prius vehicles, particularly the older models, can't be that hard?

Also infotainment systems should absolutely not be sharing core vehicle functionality, particularly if they can't be turned off in the case of this article - only option left to the user is a "deep sleep" that might fix the problem if the vehicle is locked for 5 minutes 🤦‍♂️

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Someone tell me please why I can't find an EV with manual door locks and manual windows, rear view mirrors with maybe just one rear-view camera/sensor in a cost-affordable repaceable spot and only a radio. All it needs to be an EV is to be battery/electric powered. Dumping in all the gadgetry just increases complexity, driver distraction, power required to run, and cost of simple repairs.