It has sucked since gemini came into android auto. Its slightly worse in every way.
It’s sold with small car model shaped as anal plug, so you can feel it.
I really don’t like where all of this is going. All the integrated pay-to-use, cloud-enabled, surveillance (and surveillance-adjacent) tech was bad enough. Then there’s the runaway average pricing for cars and increasing loan terms. And now we’re getting AI foisted in while we’re at it? At what point does it implode, with everyone just sticking with older tech and sticking to the used market?
Shit. They’re going to make old cars illegal, aren’t they?
ai is just gatekept internet knowledge and they are trying to sell you every “made new” again.
car+ tv+ phone+ internet+
it’s all a ruse because capitalists have 0 creativity.
Soon they will require proof of these systems in older cars to get registration. Watch.
They will bring back inspections for surveillance but not for emissions.
Why do you think cash for clunkers happened ? All a plan to get rid of repairable, affordable, non government/corporation controlled cars. Its been the plan since the tech came along to make it possible.
2027, your car is mandated to be filled with cameras, mics, and air sensors , all of this sent to a database, or you cannot drive. This is not conspiracy. This is real.
Really hate this era. Can I skip ahead 70 years after collapse or go back 30 years please ?
If this takes 70 years to collapse humanity won’t be here to witness it.
Nah, collapse is happening in 10 years or less. I figured 70 years would be where its all either rebuilt again or a total wasteland.
No - collapse is happening now and accelerating. Collapse is a process.
Ah. Understood and agreed on.
So how do you disable it?
Out of all the AIs, Gemini has to be the worst one.
Honestly, I’ve found the newer Gemini models better than ChatGPT, for quality and recognizing photos. Use it a lot as an AA:
Read this email I wrote, explain what this lawyer means, as well as helping with my reno: according to BC building code, how tall does my washing machine stand pipe need to be.
The flash model they in search is garbage.
Photo generator is ok. But the text one is very bad and gives so much false info. I don’t trust it with anything at all. I find Leo from Brave much, much better.
This thing popped up on my Android Auto the other day in the middle of a drive and I cursed at it because I was trying to get directions and then it kept responding “I don’t respond to hostile language”. Fucking annoying.
That’s such a bizarre and anti user thing for it to do. A human worker shouldn’t have to put up with it, but a machine assistant should interpret profanity as frustration with the product
fuck you, you piece of shit!
I don’t respond to hostile language
you just fucking responded you piece of shit!
you’re right, I did respond, I’m sorry.
Despite attempts to reduce driver distraction by enabling select voice commands to activate things like the air conditioning or change a radio station,
You know what worked great and didn’t distract? Haptic buttons and knobs. I don’t know what I can buy when my current car dies. I don’t want all this shit again.
My car has voice commands but it can’t even do simple tasks like turning on the headlights or wipers, and requires an active internet connection to do anything at all, so yeah, its fuckin useless.
Meanwhile my phone can dictate entire paragraphs with no internet connection at all.
Yeah it’s total dogshit. Th e only decent-ish, half-assed solution for me is using android auto (with a dedicated, isolated phone with a dummy account). Using my own voice-command-app and sygic for navigation. Of course I couldn’t control much of the car, only what odb offers.
But I’m not locked in to the proprietary car-shit. Had that once with a fucking “premium” brand’s top-model and was so pissed at it. Even cars got enshittified.
Funny: android auto forces me to make pauses while using it “for my safety”, but it’s shit crap that forces me to use damn touchscreens in a car. While driving. Also according to AA, passengers don’t exist 😁
Just get stuff replaced. I’d rather get a new engine, transmission, chassis, and all parts replaced one by one then get a car with bullshit installed.
Well the car is brand new and will probably last a while. I already downgraded from some “premium” brand to an “entry-level” car, just to have nothing but android-auto and a screen. AC and shit like that is good old knobs and buttons.
Previous car had nothing analog at all. Then the cockpit broke and it was blank. Couldn’t even see how fast I was going. Replacement was 6000 moneyz. And because the HUD also broke, it was another 5000 moneyz because the whole windshield had to be replaced. Also took a week. That made my left nut explode and sell that piece of shit (that I loved to drive, beside THAT)
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I’ll be buying and fixing pre 2015 cars till I learn to make my own. Hopefully I can also learn how to do electric conversions.
This is going to become a lucrative business very soon. Until its illegal.
Running man/handmaids/1984 , we are here.
What happened in 2015? (Only have a 2001 and 2012 right now)
2015 is when surveillance came standard with all cars.
Of all the voice LLMs Gemini is the worst. You’ll ask a factual question, “How many Grammys has U2 won?” It will give an answer based off its training then ask, “Would you also like to know about blah blah blah.”
No. I would not. Stop asking follow-up questions. I simply was curious about this one thing while listening to the radio.
The fact people fall in love with or depend on these auto complete bots is crazy. Not to mention, they’re wrong as often as they’re right.
“How many Grammys has U2 won?”
Correct answer: who cares.
I watched someone try to use Gemini through Android Auto to navigate somewhere a few days ago. It was kind of amazing.
He told it to navigate to a place, and it found a match on a different continent, refused to navigate to it and then rambled about two other irrelevant places it wanted him to go to instead for a while before it finally shut up and he could try again. It didn’t work the second time either.
Ye olde Google Assistant, when told “navigate to <place name>”, will open maps and search for <place name>.
I am a person. You are an object. Do as you’re fucking told, I’m not interested in listening to you trying to fake having an opinion.
The fake opinion is to steer you towards some marketing crap.
A lot of these LLMs heap praise on the user - some more blatantly than others - whether it’s warranted or not.
Those most susceptible tend to be the ones who don’t regularly receive that recognition in their day-to-day lives, so they become infatuated with this “AI” that treats them nicer than they’re accustomed to.
So you’re saying the world just needs a little more love ❤️
The world needs a hell of a lot more love, honestly.
Well really it needs a lot more, but yes. That would, unironically, fix a lot of problems.
“In 0.2 miles, turn right after Waffle House. Also, you smell nice and have a huge dick.”
A certain portion of “dumb” is neccessary to fall for this automated crap.
I mean some people are already essentially married to their car so this doesn‘t seem too far fachet. We are silly monkeys.
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Goddamn, I am so tired of modern convenience. My god we have made shit complicated in the name of simplicity.
It’s not even convenience, it is more distracting and useless bloat, and in a car of all places. They just got this product they invested billions in, so they are desperate to look for “solutions” to problems that doesn’t exist with it.
Oh, I know, ai was trying to point out the insanity in a few words as possible. All the solutions and conveniences we are being sold are bullshit. They are sold as helpful but just make you hate the world.
I had an Apple Watch, the simplicity of not having to take out my phone was the draw, I could see my notifications quickly and easily. All it did though was create more distraction, more digital cruft to wade through and dismiss. I get more value out of the rubber band that I have on my wrist right now than I did the Apple Watch.
Nah “we” made it complicated in the pursuit of money.
Nah, wasn’t “we” , it was “them” who sold us on a promise, but was really a leash, or muzzle. The “them” is the oligarchs, the billionaires, the epstein class…
SIMPLICITY (read: vendor lock-in)!
I’m m an Infrastructure architect and engineer, this is the same problem in enterprise. Cloud, SaaS, proprietary vendors, they all want to lock you. Time and place for all of it, but you’ve gotta know what you are getting yourself into.
What chance does the average, non-30 year veteran of industry have? It’s bad out there.
Hey Google, how about you fucking fix voice so that “navigate to Dutch Bros” works for both Android Auto and just Android instead of randomly trying to open the Dutch Bros app?
Oh and maybe look at your voice to text quality and actually navigating to places correctly.
I always loved the cars, but I’m never buying one because of the whole intrusive Android integration. Thank god I don’t really use my car that much anymore as public transportation is amazing here.
Well, it’s a good thing I can’t afford a new car anyway…
These cars will be cheaper just like SmartTVs because the manufacturers know they can make more money off of saps who buy them loaded up with shitware.
