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Do car companies outsource their software to fiverr or something? Every single car I rent lately is a buggy piece of shit.

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Ugh. I rented a Ford Explorer recently, and somehow they managed to screw up Applr Carplay. I'm in a place I don't know very well, navigating using Apple Maps via Carplay, and my GPS location goes for a wander. Just wanders off so that the navigation gets way confused trying to route me to my designation, because the current location is miles and miles off from where we are. So I unplug my phone and suddenly my GPS location is back to the correct location. HowTF did that even happen?

carplay just seems like crap on all cars I've used (including the new subaru I own)

I don't even try it anymore and just bring a vanilla charger and pipe audio to the car via bluetooth (which generally works without issue on every car I've tried) and the phone for actual navigation

lol even that was broken on the rental Ford Explorer - audio from Siri and music worked, so I know the Bluetooth connection was fine, but the GPS navigation audio didn't speak.

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