I've tried arguing with people about it and you get the usual from Tesla fanboys from it's way better to theres no way they could put carplay/android auto on the interface. It's nonsense, really. I want to use my phone with its interface. Rest of the car I'm sold on but that's a real pain point for me they need to work out.

I'd be interested to know if tesla's have the hardware to support carplay. Being able to stream 60fps video over USB with a custom protocol isn't trivial.

There are opensource projects [1] to implement android auto, so perhaps if someone runs that on a modded tesla, and gets a bunch of youtube views it might embarrass tesla into implementing it properly.

[1]: https://github.com/gartnera/headunit/tree/master/ubuntu

It’s because Toyota couldn’t make a promising navigation system. They tried things like Scout GPS, “embedded nav”, and SDL.