What could possibly go wrong?

  • lasagna@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    “Please turn on the indicator.”

    “I am sorry, as a BMW AI language model I do not understand your query.”

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I like the idea of having light chats during driving. When google assistant was introduced, i could ask to android auto to tell me a joke or some interesting tidbit, right now if i ask “where’s beijing?” it will reply to me “adding beijing, china to the route”, which doesn’t make any sense

  • Helix@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Haha, nice. I didn’t like that brand anyway. Keep getting rekt by Asian (e.g. Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Nissan, Honda), French (e.g. Renault, Peugeot) and northern (e.g. Volvo) manufacturers. German automakers are so far behind everyone else that it’s astonishing they still survive. Probably subsidies.

    I literally never drove a German-made car made in the last 8 years and thought “wow, what a thoughtful infotainment and user experience”. It’s always laggy, complicated, hard to navigate and hard to use when driving.

    • Ronno@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I literally never drove a German-made car made in the last 8 years and thought “wow, what a thoughtful infotainment and user experience”.

      Did you, or did you not drive German made cars in the past 8 years? Because in my experience, currently driving a BMW 320e (2021), I can attest that it is by far the best system I have used in any car. In my experience, way better than the brands you mention above. Perhaps I am one of those people that ensures these brands survive, because they make great automobiles that fit my needs.

      • Helix@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t drive a BMW 320e (2021) but a BMW 320d Touring (2018). I could not get the navigation system to recognise my voice and the steering wheel buttons had a “lag” of at least 200-500ms before changing anything (e.g. picking up a call, ending a call, cycling through the speedometer menu). A friend of mine drives a recent M5 which seems to be better and to be fair, BMW is one of the better brands in terms of UX. But driving a recent VW id.3 really aggravated me to the point I drove back to the renting place and got another car.

        Maybe it’s just preference and I prefer the snappier, cleaner interfaces of Asian cars instead of the “space ship” touchscreens with submenus upon submenus with lots of confusing options. I also didn’t drive those cars long enough to “get” them, but when I test drove a Hyundai Ioniq 5 before buying it I could just immediately… drive and use it, intuitively understanding all knobs and buttons. Maybe I have an Asian brain in a German body or something.

        • Ronno@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Everyone their cup of tea. I personally dislike Toyotas for their UX/UI and use of gigantic large fonts, I get why old people love them though

          • Gork@beehaw.org
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Toyota UX/UI is pretty good as far as car infotainment systems are designed (referring to the 2023 model year infotainment redesign). Pairing Bluetooth is pretty simple and doesn’t require entering into multiple menus to do so. Android auto integration still got some bugs though.