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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow" - Jeff Valdez, Stand-up Comedian.
4 Mar 2020, 17:30 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Michigan State Police will send drivers a notification through the Waze app on Android devices and iPhones to let them know they must move over whenever a police car is approaching. The new technology is based on a so-called digital siren, w...
4 Mar 2020, 17:03 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / At this point, using Android Auto in a car is possible in two different ways: wired and wirelessly, all depending on the head unit that is installed in the vehicle. Needless to say, the wireless connection is the one that’s more convenient...
4 Mar 2020, 16:39 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Bringing systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to older cars is quite a challenge, especially because it’s pretty hard to find an aftermarket head unit that perfectly supports each model. In the case of this 2000 Mazda MX-5, the Pion...
3 Mar 2020, 19:45 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Google Maps isn’t only a super-useful app that helps you go from point A to point B as fast as possible, but also the home of tons of footage from all over the world, captured either by Google’s own Street View cars or by third-party ph...
3 Mar 2020, 18:32 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It goes without saying that installing an Apple CarPlay or Android Auto kit on a Harley-Davidson isn’t as easy as it is on a car, as the system needs to have some extra features that would make it appropriate for a motorcycle. And Sony kno...
3 Mar 2020, 17:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / One of the most recent bugs in Android Auto breaks down the “OK, Google” command, pretty much making it impossible to control the system without touching the screen. And while Google said that a fix was in the works, possibly to be i...
3 Mar 2020, 17:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / With support for an always-increasing number of car brands, Android Auto is also optimized for a wide variety of vehicle displays, which in their turn use both common and very unusual aspect ratios and resolutions. Recent updates have also impro...
2 Mar 2020, 20:03 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / While Need for Speed isn’t a racing simulator whose purpose is to impress the world with how realistic things like handling are, the game features a car customization tool that lets anyone create state-of-the-art models that only skilled desi...
2 Mar 2020, 17:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / GPS issues hitting Android Auto and Apple CarPlay aren’t necessarily new, but now it looks like more car models are affected, causing navigation apps to become useless behind the wheel. In most of the cases, the navigation apps just lose G...
2 Mar 2020, 17:27 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer are three of the most popular music streaming apps these days, so it goes without saying that the majority of drivers use them when getting behind the wheel. But on the other hand, while these apps are really use...
1 Mar 2020, 19:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The tech revolution has made floppy disks obsolete, and with everyone using cloud storage services these days, it’s very clear that the world is migrating towards more convenient solutions. But floppy disks have a very special place in eve...
1 Mar 2020, 17:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / By default, Apple CarPlay does not allow users to select what apps they want to show up in the left sidebar, pretty much because the system is designed in a way that relies on user interaction with the installed apps. In other words, the apps di...
1 Mar 2020, 15:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Car mods have been around for a long time in a wide variety of games, but the bigger challenge for everyone, especially when building customizations for racing simulators, was to make handling feel as realistic as possible. This is without a dou...
1 Mar 2020, 13:45 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / There’s no doubt Apple’s CarPlay has improved a lot in the last 12 months or so, and it’s all because the Cupertino-based iPhone maker decided to remove some restrictions and provide third parties with access to more features. ...
1 Mar 2020, 12:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The attacks launched by cybercriminals these days are getting a lot more sophisticated, and the British authorities now warn that online scams are often launched on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. The United Kingdom’s Driver a...
1 Mar 2020, 11:32 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Google Maps car capturing weird stuff in street-level imagery is by no means something uncommon, but from time to time, we still come across photos that are pretty hard to explain. The footage you see here was captured by the Google car on t...
1 Mar 2020, 11:15 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Installing Android Auto updates is quite a Russian roulette, as instead of getting the improvements promised in the latest releases, drivers could end up being unable to use the system completely. At the same time, dealer software updates could ...
23 Feb 2020, 19:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Google has just released a new version of Android Auto, and judging from the release notes and the early feedback from users who rushed to install it, this one brings not only several highly-anticipated fixes but also a new feature that's welc...
23 Feb 2020, 18:13 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / CarBridge is a jailbreak tool that enhances the existing version of Apple’s CarPlay with new functionality, including support for games and YouTube videos. One of the biggest drawbacks, however, was that it only worked on older iOS version...
23 Feb 2020, 16:57 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A Ferrari winning a race in a racing game isn’t uncommon, but on the other hand, a Ferrari winning a race and then finishing second is certain something that you don’t see too often. And yet, it happens, as one unlucky fellow discove...