Push

Why can't you just voice in a destination?? I personally don't like how cars today are just focusing on technology... They need to get back to the basics with ride quality and it has to be fun to drive...

After a long hard day at work, I don't want to jump in my car and deal with more business.. Once I enter the driver seat, its either a nice relaxing ride home, or time to attack some corners at night.

wayner

My daily commute is about 30-40 mins each way in congested traffic doing 40km/h . Very rarely do I get to "open 'er up" so I may as well keep myself entertained on the ride. And that entertainment will include listening to sat radio or my iPod. And I will likely call my wife to say I am on my way and do you need me to pick up anything. For those last two functions the technology comes into play.

LuxoRocket

If the Bluetooth stack implementation on your phone has the Message Access Profile enabled, your GS should be able to receive and reply to emails and text messages. Others have reported that they have been able to get this to work on Android. MAP is disabled on IOS - go figure.

Check this thread for details. https://www.clublexus.com/forums/gs-...ages-back.html

1111GS

We already have enough problem with people driving/texting and social media through the smartphone. You really think it's practical to make something like iPad/iPhone plug and play with the car? Would you want the guy behind you driving an SUV/truck with a plugged in iPad? Definitely not me. When I see people with phone in their hand, I drive away from them.

wayner

What I mean is that instead of having the car's Nav/electronic system, you would mount an iPad into the dash that would replace the current system. It really wouldn't be any different than what we have today. And ideally it would be easy to change so when the next iPad comes out you can upgrade.

SW17LS

Its just a comparison of apples and oranges. They don't compare themselves to consumer electronics, they compare themselves to the technology packages in competitors vehicles.

That makes you have to buy an iPad, and makes you use an iPad over other alternatives in the marketplace. Lexus has to team with Apple to develop it (which Apple doesn't do well).

I would have no interest in having an iPad in my car.

Corey140

They still haven't updated the receiver to do 32 characters yet for XM? That's crazy.

onexcite

Why they have to wasting their $$$ and time to improve/upgrade these tech features while they still can sell it without doing anything?

The only ANSWER for this to car manufacture: STOP buying their car and they will listen to what you guys want and make some improvement.

gs3andahaf

I had a 2012 Acura TL, and found the tech features to be miles ahead of my 2013 GS F Sport. Features, UI and overall execution were in another league. In truth, I also preferred the leather interior in the TL. Overall however the GS F is a superior car.

wla1mjd

This is the most helpful post of the month by far!!! I hate those notifications while I am trying to reverse. Gonna change them first thing in the morning! Thank you!

wayner

So I did something about my disappointment in the dashboard technology of my 2013 GS350 - I traded it in for a Tesla Model S P85D. The dashboard technology is about two orders of magnitude beyond what my GS350 had - but the car did cost twice as much. But my wife's car is a 2013 RX450h so I still have a Lexus in the family.

On this topic in general it looks like there is finally some movement on improving dashboard technology beyond something that wouldn't have looked too out of place on a Commodore 64.

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto seem to be gaining traction - this year's CES seemed to have a lot on the connected car.

jkeller

What we all want is a better operating system, IOS or android. Those companies are WAY ahead of the Denso(?) OS we have now. Apple doesn't make cars, Lexus doesn't make OS's. It would be great if Lexus made a phone call to Cupertino and said hey about you guys write us an OS.

wayner

Put a lightning port so that you can snap an iPad or iPad mini into the dash. Then have Toyota/Lexus create the interface for the car stuff like climate, back up cam, media, etc so that can be done on the iPad as well. You probably don't need Nav since Waze is much better at that anyway. But then you need LTE capability on the device. And Siri gives you the voice control.

But that also takes away profit margin - don't they still charge several thou for the Nav systems? A fully loaded iPad is under $1000 with a ton of storage.

wayner

How may world class software companies have come out of Japan? Maybe Nintendo is partially software but they have also fallen behind.

vtp86

Congrats on the Tesla, I think that car is probably suited best towards what you're looking for as far as tech goes.