Interesting Discoveries Thread (Good or Bad)

[MerlintheMad]

^^^When the parking sensors are OFF (light out), shifting into reverse will definitely turn them ON temporarily (until you drive above 12 MPH). This confused me for about a week, until I noticed that my sensors were in fact turned off, somehow, and I had not noticed.

 

[Transmetal]

Apparently, you can lock the keys in the car if you press the door locks twice from the inside.

Had the Mrs in the car, I shut off the car to run in and get Chinese take out. Told her to lock the doors, then I said "oh yeah you can't do that with the keys in the car." She says, yes you can, I'm like huh, since when? Keys were in the cup holder, she pressed the lock, door unlocks right away. Then she presses it again the car beeps for a minute but the doors lock.

 

[LordKOTL]

Interesting thing I discovered...

When using Bluetooth on my phone (i.e. not plugged in), if I'm listening to my own MP3's (Oneplus 9 pro and MusicOLet app, for reference), I always get the album art (if available) one the media screen, unless it connects when I'm in the middle of a song, then I get no album art for that song, but the next song and subsequent songs I get the album art.

However...

If I'm listening to Pandora, I don't get any album art unless it connects in the middle of a song, and once the new song starts...no album art for any songs--like completely reversed of normal in-phone MP3's

Plugged in Android Auto makes the whole situation moot, but for short trips without the need for any GPS I usually don't bother plugging my phone in.

And yes, all of the phone/app settings have it push album art over bluetooth.

Very minor thing, but I find it odd the the behavior is completely reversed. I don't think it's the phone because my last car had an aftermarket head unit which pulled the album art regardless.

 

[CKeeler]

Interesting thing I discovered...

When using Bluetooth on my phone (i.e. not plugged in), if I'm listening to my own MP3's (Oneplus 9 pro and MusicOLet app, for reference), I always get the album art (if available) one the media screen, unless it connects when I'm in the middle of a song, then I get no album art for that song, but the next song and subsequent songs I get the album art.

However...

If I'm listening to Pandora, I don't get any album art unless it connects in the middle of a song, and once the new song starts...no album art for any songs--like completely reversed of normal in-phone MP3's

Plugged in Android Auto makes the whole situation moot, but for short trips without the need for any GPS I usually don't bother plugging my phone in.

And yes, all of the phone/app settings have it push album art over bluetooth.

Very minor thing, but I find it odd the the behavior is completely reversed. I don't think it's the phone because my last car had an aftermarket head unit which pulled the album art regardless.

I’ve never been able to get album art over Bluetooth.

 

[D.J.]

I’ve never been able to get album art over Bluetooth.

Same with me.

Android, 2018 stinger.

 

[MrE]

Interesting thing I discovered...

When using Bluetooth on my phone (i.e. not plugged in), if I'm listening to my own MP3's (Oneplus 9 pro and MusicOLet app, for reference), I always get the album art (if available) one the media screen, unless it connects when I'm in the middle of a song, then I get no album art for that song, but the next song and subsequent songs I get the album art.

However...

If I'm listening to Pandora, I don't get any album art unless it connects in the middle of a song, and once the new song starts...no album art for any songs--like completely reversed of normal in-phone MP3's

Plugged in Android Auto makes the whole situation moot, but for short trips without the need for any GPS I usually don't bother plugging my phone in.

And yes, all of the phone/app settings have it push album art over bluetooth.

Very minor thing, but I find it odd the the behavior is completely reversed. I don't think it's the phone because my last car had an aftermarket head unit which pulled the album art regardless.

Agree, that is bizarre!

With the mp3s on your phone, is album art embedded in the mp3 files, or is the player downloading images for each file?

 

[LordKOTL]

Agree, that is bizarre!

With the mp3s on your phone, is album art embedded in the mp3 files, or is the player downloading images for each file?

Most of the files have images imbedded, some have the images as sidecar--mostly older CD rips from a couple of decades ago.

It's not a huge deal of course, and both Pandora and MusicOLet work perfectly when I am plugged into Android Auto.

 

[LordKOTL]

I’ve never been able to get album art over Bluetooth.

Vvv

Same with me.

Android, 2018 stinger.

It might be a setting in your music app. The one I use can broadcast album art; it might be buried in the settings.

 

[CKeeler]

Vvv

It might be a setting in your music app. The one I use can broadcast album art; it might be buried in the settings.

Could also be something they did in the refresh that wasn’t available in the ‘18-20

I’ve been able to broadcast album artwork with other devices. Except with my car. It just does a Bluetooth logo with a KITT style light bar under the word “streaming”

 

[SanDiegoBlue]

OK - I use the smart cruise control a little, but not a ton (as I like to drive the car myself and do not often to on extended highway trips).

This last Friday my 15 mile trip home from work was interrupted by a couple semi trucks getting into a bit of each other and spilling some fuel, so the freeway had most of the lanes shut down. This turned a 20 minute drive into a 80 minute drive. Bummer.

So I sat there in the car in bumper to bumper traffic listening to music and playing with the car features. I set the smart cruise control (with lane follow) and found something interesting.

The lane follow assist that typically turns off after a minute of no hands on the wheel never turned off for over an hour. Now understand the speeds were never over about 5 mph. With cruise control that has stop and go and seeming unlimited lane follow the car pretty much drove in stop and go traffic for this whole time with no input from me. (I was of course attentive and ready to take over).

I wonder what speed triggers the 60 second no-hands timer?

And before you jump and, I agree, the stop and go feature of the smart cruise has rather abrupt braking at times... first world problems I guess.

 

[777David]

OK - I use the smart cruise control a little, but not a ton (as I like to drive the car myself and do not often to on extended highway trips).

This last Friday my 15 mile trip home from work was interrupted by a couple semi trucks getting into a bit of each other and spilling some fuel, so the freeway had most of the lanes shut down. This turned a 20 minute drive into a 80 minute drive. Bummer.

So I sat there in the car in bumper to bumper traffic listening to music and playing with the car features. I set the smart cruise control (with lane follow) and found something interesting.

The lane follow assist that typically turns off after a minute of no hands on the wheel never turned off for over an hour. Now understand the speeds were never over about 5 mph. With cruise control that has stop and go and seeming unlimited lane follow the car pretty much drove in stop and go traffic for this whole time with no input from me. (I was of course attentive and ready to take over).

I wonder what speed triggers the 60 second no-hands timer?

And before you jump and, I agree, the stop and go feature of the smart cruise has rather abrupt braking at times... first world problems I guess.

I've noticed that too. While I don't use the lane keep assist much, I've had it stay on without bugging me to put my hands back on the wheel for extended times too, at higher speeds on long straight ways with clearly marked lanes. Then again at other times, it's on me frequently, "Get your hands on the wheel". Seems inconsistent.
Must be other factors besides speed it is calculating. Curvature of the road, lane not being clearly striped, etc.

 

[LordKOTL]

To add to this:

I was *just* driving back from lunch today, and as I was driving on this somewhat hilly and twisty road with a limit of 40mph, with my hands firmly planted in line with the paddles shifters on the wheel, it gave me a "keep hands on the wheel" warning. Even though they never left the wheel.

I also wonder what the depth and breadth of the sensing is for hands on the wheel.

 

[rpoffen]

To add to this:

I was *just* driving back from lunch today, and as I was driving on this somewhat hilly and twisty road with a limit of 40mph, with my hands firmly planted in line with the paddles shifters on the wheel, it gave me a "keep hands on the wheel" warning. Even though they never left the wheel.

I also wonder what the depth and breadth of the sensing is for hands on the wheel.

I don’t think it actually senses contact with the wheel, just that a driver is making constant small movements and corrections.

 

[LordKOTL]

I don’t think it actually senses contact with the wheel, just that a driver is making constant small movements and corrections.

Gotcha. Weird though since I was actually turning the wheel to go through the curves.

 

[DoctorStiches]

Im so glad i got a gt1 haha no extra science to be blinded by

 

[CKeeler]

Im so glad i got a gt1 haha no extra science to be blinded by

Same with my GT!

 

[LordKOTL]

Im so glad i got a gt1 haha no extra science to be blinded by

I don't mind the weird science...

 

[Snicklefritz]

Im so glad i got a gt1 haha no extra science to be blinded by

Yes to that. My Premium has all the bells and whistles (including cooled seats). The driver assist apps I disabled soon after I got it.

 

[cncBilly]

I found out something odd the other day. Been a little cold here lately so I’ve been starting my car, turn on seats, wheel and heat then I close the door and walk my little dog to the bushes for a pee and sniff then by the time I climb in to head home everything is nice and warm. Little doggy sits in his seat I have fastened to the passenger seat, so the other day I think ahhh I‘ll clip him in from the passenger side before I get in. Nope even with the key/fob in my pocket the passenger door would not unlock for me. I thought this to be odd. One would think with the key/fob in pocket the door would unlock. Perhaps I’m missing something safety related.

 

[Snicklefritz]

I found out something odd the other day. Been a little cold here lately so I’ve been starting my car, turn on seats, wheel and heat then I close the door and walk my little dog to the bushes for a pee and sniff then by the time I climb in to head home everything is nice and warm. Little doggy sits in his seat I have fastened to the passenger seat, so the other day I think ahhh I‘ll clip him in from the passenger side before I get in. Nope even with the key/fob in my pocket the passenger door would not unlock for me. I thought this to be odd. One would think with the key/fob in pocket the door would unlock. Perhaps I’m missing something safety related.

This seems to be a Stinger thing. do other keyless entry cars do this? every time I have tried to open the passenger side doors with the car running it refuses me and I have to walk around to the drivers door and manually push the unlock button to unlock the passenger doors.