Ford will keep Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its vehicles

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

In my opinion, this is the perfect interior. I hate screens in cars. The placement of the screen in the maverick moves the vents to a weird low terrible position. I would prefer my maverick with the screen deleted, the vents moved up & a tiny no screen radio (might have made the truck cheaper). Passenger can hold the map & give directions.

Put your phone completely away. You don't need to look at a screen you need to look at the road!

My own Miata I did swap the tape deck for a Pioneer with Bluetooth + Aux jack & the blank for a cubby

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[Gullzway]

What do you use in place of Carplay?

 

[JimParker256]

In my opinion, this is the perfect interior. I hate screens in cars. The placement of the screen in the maverick moves the vents to a weird low terrible position. I would prefer my maverick with the screen deleted, the vents moved up & a tiny no screen radio (might have made the truck cheaper). Passenger can hold the map & give directions.

Put your phone completely away. You don't need to look at a screen you need to look at the road!

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I get that you "don't like screens" and would prefer to just have an old-fashioned radio. Would you have preferred to pay $1000 more for your Maverick to have that option? Because 99% of us vastly prefer having one screen to having a multitude of separate gauges and control panels for all the various computerized functions in our vehicles. The cars we're driving these days have FAR more computing power than the NASA systems that controlled the Apollo moon missions. Having the screen that you so despise allows us to control and interact with all of them through one interface...

And You DO realize that no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to stare at the screen while driving, right? How much you look at the screen is entirely up to you. And you don't even have to use it at all while you're driving. (Shh - don't tell him the speedometer area is also a "screen"...)

The whole point of CarPlay / Android Auto is that you DON"T have to look at the screen at all – unless you want to. Siri (or the Android equivalent) accepts voice commands to do everything you need to do while driving - completely hands-free. The voice commands allow you to set a destination, then gives you verbal driving directions in advance of every turn, so that you don't have to look at the screen at all.

Some of us drive by ourselves a lot, so there isn't anyone else to "hold the map & give directions." Siri effectively does that for us. I'm quite confident that I personally am able to spend a LOT more time "looking at the road" when Siri is giving me the directions. I'm far more aware of the other vehicles around me, because I'm not having to split my concentration between "driving" and "navigating" – especially when I'm going somewhere I've never been before (which is fairly often, given that I'm now living in a new-to-me city.)

The "screen" requires FAR LESS interaction than does a map or road atlas. When I glance at the navigation app screen, I don't have to "find" my location on the map. It's ALWAYS centered under the symbol. I don't have to figure out what my next turn is on a map where all the roads look the same. My route is displayed as a different-colored line, with upcoming turns clearly marked. I don't have to re-fold the screen or manually turn the page every so often. And the screen will NEVER fly out the window when my kid opens it to "look at the doggy" in the car beside us. (Yeah, that happened - in Boston, on the freeway, about 1/2 mile after we got onto the freeway...)

 

[Nw_adventure]

I guess I've been lucky with my Lariat Hybrid. No mechanical issues at all, and my Sync3 system has been pretty darn stable. The only issues I've had relates to the fact that I'm using an aftermarket "wireless" CarPlay adapter, which occasionally (only 2X in 6 months) fails to synch up on the first attempt. Unplugging/replugging the short USB cable has always resolved that issue.

I do, however, religiously check the Ford site for software updates, and apply them to my truck ASAP.

I am having an issue applying a Sync3 update-Worked fine before with USB now nothing really happens when I plug in the USB with the sync my ride folder- Have you had any luck with updating wirelessly ?

 

[commadorebob]

The screen isn't going anywhere due to the whole back-up camera requirement. But as for Ford sticking with CarPlay and AndroidAuto, that makes sense. Given they have enough software issues they can't get right, why add the entertainment center?

 

[Mav_RICK]

I guess I've been lucky with my Lariat Hybrid. No mechanical issues at all, and my Sync3 system has been pretty darn stable. The only issues I've had relates to the fact that I'm using an aftermarket "wireless" CarPlay adapter, which occasionally (only 2X in 6 months) fails to synch up on the first attempt. Unplugging/replugging the short USB cable has always resolved that issue.

I do, however, religiously check the Ford site for software updates, and apply them to my truck ASAP.

Jim which adapter are you using and do you do your updates through home wifi?

 

[LM42]

I also have a wireless connection. I believe my connectivity issue at times is where my phone is on my person along with I Velcro the adapter to just under the connection port.

I used wireless for a short period of time and it was garbage. I went back to wired. No issues with that at all.

 

[LM42]

In my opinion, this is the perfect interior. I hate screens in cars. The placement of the screen in the maverick moves the vents to a weird low terrible position. I would prefer my maverick with the screen deleted, the vents moved up & a tiny no screen radio (might have made the truck cheaper). Passenger can hold the map & give directions.

Put your phone completely away. You don't need to look at a screen you need to look at the road!

My own Miata I did swap the tape deck for a Pioneer with Bluetooth + Aux jack & the blank for a cubby

Ok boomer

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

I get that you "don't like screens" and would prefer to just have an old-fashioned radio. Would you have preferred to pay $1000 more for your Maverick to have that option?

a multitude of separate gauges and control panels for all the various computerized functions in our vehicles. The cars we're driving these days have FAR more computing power than the NASA systems that controlled the Apollo moon missions. Having the screen that you so despise allows us to control and interact with all of them through one interface...

(Shh - don't tell him the speedometer area is also a "screen"...)

YES 1000x YES I would have loved to pay $1000 LESSSSSSSSSSS for my Maverick if screen was an option..... I would not option it & save $1,000. I bet a lot of fleet XL would also save the $1000 & be without the screen.

What are the multitude of gauges I need that YUGE screen to pay attention to? The screen is only maps, radio, spotify. Everything that's actually important is in the gage cluster (oil, temp, tire pressure, tire psi, check engine light, oil life). Backup camera would be better in the gage cluster too.

I got a cheap $30 heads up display on amazon and I don't even have to look at a screen for my speed. The hybrid gage screen is actually garbage, there's too little info spread out too far. My hud actually looks exactly like this

I would pay for an option to have the F150's head's up display in my Maverick

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

Ok boomer

I'm 30, 92 baby - my Miata is older than me.

Boomers are the ones looking at a screen not driving. Few years HUD will be in a lot more cars or on all cars.

 

[LM42]

I'm 30, 92 baby - my Miata is older than me.

I understand your sentiment about screens, and certainly some cars have so much going on. But, if you can't manage the screen in a vehicle like the Maverick you shouldn't be driving. Driving is NOT difficult. And neither is operating Nav/radio while doing so. The number of people who are so bad at it is shocking. But, that is because America has a very poor drivers ed system and most people are fed into it from the city never having operated anything before that point. I am a country kid and operated farm equipment and even large diesel seed trucks before I was even a teen. Not picking on your specifically.

 

[RatherBeDrivingaManual]

The number of people who are so bad at it is shocking. But, that is because America has a very poor drivers ed system and most people are fed into it from the city never having operated anything before that point. I am a country kid and operated farm equipment and even large diesel seed trucks before I was even a teen. Not picking on your specifically.

We probably agree on a lot. It's not hard to look at a map a passenger is holding vs one stuck to the dash. I agree it's bad drivers not screens. I can use the mav screen i do choose not to

In Canada 2016 when I took drivers Ed & test anything that was not 1 push operation was a fail or distracted driving ticket. Idk how it is now. I've moved away so things may have changed. This was before ipad in your car was common.

 

[TCPTX65]

YES 1000x YES I would have loved to pay $1000 LESSSSSSSSSSS for my Maverick if screen was an option..... I would not option it & save $1,000. I bet a lot of fleet XL would also save the $1000 & be without the screen.

What are the multitude of gauges I need that YUGE screen to pay attention to? The screen is only maps, radio, spotify. Everything that's actually important is in the gage cluster (oil, temp, tire pressure, tire psi, check engine light, oil life). Backup camera would be better in the gage cluster too.

I got a cheap $30 heads up display on amazon and I don't even have to look at a screen for my speed. The hybrid gage screen is actually garbage, there's too little info spread out too far. My hud actually looks exactly like this

I would pay for an option to have the F150's head's up display in my Maverick

Amazon.com: XTOBD Car Head Display C3 Head Up Display Navigation 5"HD Screen HUD OBD2+GPS Dual System HUD Support Map Navigation : Electronics

 

[crgator]

I'm 30, 92 baby - my Miata is older than me.

Boomers are the ones looking at a screen not driving.

I'm a boomer, and like the boomers I occasionally ride with, I look at the road while driving. I glance at the screen and the dash gauges only when necessary. Your generalizations are pretty pathetic, but I'll not bother using generalizations about your age group. Not worth the time or effort.

 

[Edge Haley]

I'm 30, 92 baby - my Miata is older than me.

Boomers are the ones looking at a screen not driving. Few years HUD will be in a lot more cars or on all cars.

Use of Google Maps - I use it daily and instead of looking at the screen I listen to the audible turn by turn directions, rarely do I look at the screen while driving. No way is it safer than a paper map.

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