Common Motors believes phasing out standalone Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone connectivity will assist enhance security, the corporate just lately advised Motor Pattern.

At a media occasion for the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV, the primary car to get a brand new Google-based infotainment system that drops Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, GM head of product for infotainment Tim Babbitt advised Motor Pattern that the brand new system makes it much less possible that drivers will decide up their telephones whereas behind the wheel.

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto have stability points that may end up in gradual responses, poor rendering, and dropped connections, Babbitt stated. And if issues aren’t working correctly on the automotive’s display screen, drivers might be tempted to make use of their telephones, he argues, whereas admitting that GM hasn’t examined this speculation.

The reliability of CarPlay and Android Auto can certainly be a difficulty on account of issues like poor wi-fi connections, compatibility points with the quite a few Android telephones available on the market, and backwards compatibility points that have an effect on older iPhone fashions, Motor Pattern notes. GM believes it is fixing this by including most of the options drivers use on their telephones—similar to Google Maps—on to the infotainment system. This theoretically makes them extra secure, whereas giving GM extra direct entry to knowledge generated by customers.

2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV

GM introduced in April that each one future EVs would get the Google-based infotainment system. Following the Blazer EV, the Chevy Equinox EV, Cadillac Celestiq, and GMC Sierra EV are all scheduled to launch with out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Manufacturing points have delayed the launch timing of a few of these fashions, nevertheless.

The choice to take away CarPlay and Android Auto does not apply to combustion-engine autos, however GM has indicated that it’s going to get rid of most gas-powered autos from its lineup within the coming years. The automaker in 2021 declared an “aspiration” to take away tailpipes from its light-duty autos by 2035 and plans to make Buick and Cadillac all-electric by the tip of the last decade.