Evermore
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- Mustang Mach-E
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- Aviation
yeah, I can totally see this if they use the cloud. However, there are a lot of closed systems with this car... my phone is connected via Bluetooth for PAAK, so beam it over as soon as I hit the off button. Bluetooth is secure and more or less a 1:1 relationship. Or if my phone and the car are connected to same wifi send it over. Or lock down the cloud.I like these suggestions! One thing to note about the first one ("send trip details to phone") is that it would require some sort of connection other than USB to send the data or it would require some sort of client/server setup between the car and the phone. Any other design would expose Ford to privacy risk and is probably why they had this in-the-car only. Imagine if some could hack into Ford's servers and access everyone's trip data. Yikes! Even if they only use the servers as temporary storage, there's still the chance that the user can see whatever data is in transit or worse yet, have an undetected intrusion that is cloning data as it's being uploaded to the server. Very tricky business and I'm sure Ford doesn't want to open itself to such a high-risk security breach. It would be really bad PR.
I don’t plug in via USB (using a plug for the phone w all the stuff in this car - Qi charger, Bluetooth, CarPlay/AndroidAuto is really backwards thinking on Fords part) and I use CarPlay so don’t connect to the Bluetooth system that is required for Journeys..... as mentioned in another thread, this starts to point to why Tesla doesn’t allow Android or CarPlay - the systems don’t talk to the cars’ systems and just add frustrations for the customers. (You can have Journeys, but just remember to not use CarPlay which we offer and also encourage as an option for you to use! Thanks!! )
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