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by mPReDiToR 565 days ago
I'm a professional driver and have been since the 90s.

The day will one day come where the shitty proprietary map providers that pay auto manufacturers to foist them on us get ousted and we can have a USB-C connection to the car's system display for our screen mirroring as standard.

In-vehicle audio and navigation is utterly useless. Costly updates, unfamiliar GUI's, distracting bells and whistles.

There are two SatNav's I've seen used by colleagues:

GOOG maps (thanks for messing up timeline last week, shitheads)

TomTom trucks (I drive large vehicles these days)

I'd love to have a screen that mirrors my phone, on the dash, not obscuring the windscreen, with connections to the steering wheel controls and the speakers.

Making do with a vent/suction holder is frustrating.

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I do notice how every Uber driver has the vent holder.