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ICC follow distance tightened up. Am I imagining an improvement after the last OTA update?

TerryTowellinghat | 2024-07-22 12:43 | 8 views

I was stoked for the Wireless CarPlay, but I’ve been a little disappointed with how randomly it seems to work. Sometimes I’ll remotely start my car and it will start playing the podcast I’m listening to on headphones as soon as I enter the garage, other times I have felt like I had to delete the car from my phone and the phone from my car and reconnect it to get it to work again. I’ve recently discovered that it appears I can just go to the connected devices screen and tap the CarPlay logo, but I hope it becomes more predictable. I was happy that the speed limit recognition now stays off after restarting, but initially I was pissed off that the shortcut option for getting to the screen where I could turn off the LKA had disappeared and I now had to go through about ten screen presses to get to the right menu and turn off and acknowledge the two options there. But then one day I forgot to do it and noticed that it is actually pretty good now and I am happy to leave it on. Best of all for me is that previously the intelligent cruise follow distance from the car in front was so long I was self consciously over-riding it and fighting it to avoid leaving a full three second gap that people would actually pull out and overtake me to fill, and now it is more like the two second gap recommended for modern cars. It’s still longer than most drivers around me leave, but people definitely follow too closely on average, and it no longer looks like I’m a nervous driver who should stay out of the right hand lane or who is trying to watch a video on his phone. A workmate with a Seal seems to be of the opinion that the CarPlay reconnection is faultless, but he likes to take a superior position on random shit and it is only a minor niggle at the moment. A reboot hasn’t fixed it but it might be fixable at my 5k service or in a future update. Overall the latest OTA update has fixed 95% of the little things I didn’t like, and a lot of the remaining 5% are dopey grammatical errors in the infotainment messages.

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[deleted] 2024-07-22 22:05

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TerryTowellinghat 2024-07-22 23:57

Yep. I’m talking about the minimum (level 1) throughout. It’s not based on car lengths as it depends on the speed you are going. It has gone from about 3 seconds to about 2 by my rough estimation.

lateralone2413 2024-07-23 01:05

Without trying to sound somehow superior, I can say the wireless Apple Carplay on my Seal has been seen pretty much faultless. I did initially delete the 'wired' connection and device and reconnect etc. But have had no issues since then. Maybe try deleting link off both car and phone and starting over?

EpicJ1 2024-07-23 01:40

I had troubles initially with the wireless CarPlay consistently connecting and disconnecting. I found it worked well after I connected via Bluetooth and did not set up car play initially. Then after using it on Bluetooth for a day or so, turning on CarPlay in my phones settings. Been pretty solid since then.

TerryTowellinghat 2024-07-23 01:51

That’s in the first paragraph. It never doesn’t get it to work, but it’s still not permanent. Going to connected devices and hitting the CarPlay logo for my phone seems to work just as well though I’ve found.

lateralone2413 2024-07-23 01:57

OK. My bad for misreading your post.

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