Radarscope & Apple CarPlay - Why doesn't it work?

[Steven Marshall]

The car in question is a 2019 Sub Outback. It has the worst head unit I've ever encountered in any new car. I trade in every 2 to 3 years, so I've seen a few but this thing is just poorly designed, has an overly sensitive touch screen and some really weird oddities. For instance, a wave of the hand anywhere near the screen changes the radio channel. When you start the car up, the radio comes on regardless of where it was set when you parked it, even if you made sure you turned the radio OFF and ALL the way down, it will still start when the car starts.....AND it takes about 30 seconds before it will allow you to adjust the volume or turn it off. Not just my car either, lots of similar complaints on the subaru owners forums. So as a substitute for carplay radar, I mount a tablet running radarscope right over the head unit. Works, its just a PIA to have yet another device to worry about.

 

[Gary Skaggs]

Lots of valid postive remarks and a far amount of realistic buzzkill here.

Look at it from the standpoint of liability for RadarScope, some fool will have a wreck and sue DTN for damages in the millions. Unless you want to jailbreak it, just take your existing iPad and mount it with any one of a number of vehicle mounts and pair it with the now-ubiquitous in-vehicle WiFi or bluetooth to your hotspot-phone.

My opinion (like *, everyone has one) is that Radarscope won't appear on any unjailbroke vehicle streams.

 

[rdale]

My opinion - if Apple approaches RS and says "We want to give you CarPlay access" then RS will be on CarPlay They've made it clear that they cannot do anything until Apple comes to them.

 

[John Wetter]

As mentioned, CarPlay access is for specif app categories only. It is a closely held entitlement due to the involved regulation. Navigation, audio, and just a few others are the only apps allowed this entitlement.

 

[B. Dean Berry]

There is always option B - Double-DIN Chinese no-name Android head unit that just acts like a cell phone with all the safety features turned off.