GM's Scott Miller on why he thinks he can make a better car OS than Google or Apple despite having never made a useable OS previously or working for anyone that has.

In contrast, I wouldn't say I've ever found the CarPlay experience to be "fantastic". It's *fine*, sure, but it isn't what I would call *great*. My biggest gripe with it is that basically forces you to deal with two separate worlds that feel like they are separated by a chasm, the one inside CarPlay and the one outside of it. CarPlay takes up a fixed amount of room on the display and currently isn't aware of anything car-specific (climate, settings etc, although I'm aware Apple have announced some future changes for CarPlay in this regard). It isn't really aware of whether it should be dark mode or light mode based on the outside light levels, it doesn't know or care about any favourite locations I've saved in the navigation, it basically has only two media modes (CarPlay is playing media vs the car radio is playing) and no awareness of *what is playing* beyond that, it doesn't know whether or not I've got traffic announcements enabled on the radio (and often goofs when one kicks in) and there's a massive difference in how responsive it is based on whether it's plugged in by USB or whether it's using Wireless CarPlay. If I'm driving along a country road and the lane guidance is being a bit aggressive, I need to leave CarPlay to turn it off, and then go back to CarPlay afterwards. I now have two sets of notification settings (i.e. what to do if I get a message), one inside CarPlay and one outside of it for when it's connected via Bluetooth and *not* using CarPlay. The voice control button on the steering wheel now becomes dual-personality, a short press for Siri, a long press for the car voice control, another mental overhead that I have to think about and basically no overlap between the functionality of either. As a result, I just generally don't bother using it anymore. The standard iPod functionality actually works better for what I want it to do (basically just to play Apple Music) and has considerably less context switching. To me "projection" really is an accurate term of what it is, it's projecting a window of your phone onto your car's display and basically doing the absolute minimum necessary beyond that.