[subego]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

If you're emulating a manual sequential shifter, then pull back to upshift is correct.

Maybe I’m missing something, but with the vast majority of manual shifters I’ve seen, whether one pushes or pulls to upshift changes depending upon the gear.

If I had to give upshifting a consistent direction it would be right.


Edit: or is what I’m missing the “sequential” part?

[MacNNFamous]

He's talking about race trans stuff. You pull back to shift to the next gear.

[ghporter]

Not sure if this is “car stuff” or “other computer stuff” but it involves my car, so I’m putting it here.

My car’s satellite radio stopped yesterday. Just stopped. It only displayed “000 Radio ID”. Not even the free “here’s why you should subscribe for this fabulous content” channel.

Very little searching was needed. My Honda infotainment system has a reboot option. You push and hold the volume knob/power button until the display says “Do you want to reboot the radio” and say yes. Then it goes ahead and reboots. Related research points to this system running on some variant of Android… And I don’t know if this reboot had any effect on the nav system - which uses the same display.

In any case, now I know more about my car. And it’s good to know that the computers that actually run the car are NOT part of the infotainment system. However, my completely digital dashboard and many of the safety and convenience options ARE managed through interfaces in the infotainment system. So while I am not worried that the engine will suddenly become possessed or something, I am mildly concerned that some Android glitch might turn my dash illumination OFF while I’m driving at night. What fun!

[Brien]

How is Android such a POS regardless of application? I've used TVs, streaming boxes, etc. with it as the OS and they all seem to need semi-frequent reboots or they get... weird.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

That seems super edge case. I’ve never heard of people having to reboot their Hondas

[ghporter]

I’ve had essentially the same infotainment system (two different vehicles) since 2017, and this is the first time I’ve had to reboot it. I had one other computer related issue, but it was a “car management computer” thing. A programming error meant that the motor that sets the parking brake was accidentally left on after the brake was latched in the “parked” position. This drained the battery pretty quickly. Honda did a quiet recall (addressed only if a customer complained), and they both updated the computer and replaced the battery. I can see not having everyone bring their vehicle in, since the error did not necessarily cause problems for every vehicle every time.

As for being an edge case, I found my solution on the second or third Google hit, from a CR-V owners’ forum. It appears that the infotainment system might be easily overwhelmed in some situations. Maybe if you use satellite, Bluetooth, Car Play AND Android Auto a lot. I don’t know.

We just use FM now and then, and mostly listen to satellite. A typical trip for us would be three to four hours of mostly freeway driving eastward, or four to five hours driving westward. I remember doing the eastbound trips with FM and CDs, and having a consistent set of channels whether you’re getting close to Houston or to Alpine sure makes a big difference.

[Thorzdad]

Took the Forester on a roughly 300-mile road trip over the weekend. Mostly two-lane state roads and county roads. No interstates. Averaged 34mpg.

[Laminar]

Dashcam thread is too old to be bumped so here's my first real get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa26r4eBts0

I heard it happen before I saw it, but I pulled through the intersection and pulled over. The SUV was creeping along, I was afraid she was unconscious and just coasting but she was trying to get over to my side of the road. She was a bit shaken up but okay. The guy in the truck came over to make sure everyone was okay. The SUV claimed the light had turned red and she was finishing her turn. The truck claimed his light was still good and that she turned in front of him. I didn't tell them right away that I had a dashcam, mostly because I'd never had to pull video off of it in situ and didn't know if I could do it.

Eventually the police showed up and took statements and got the tow trucks on the way. I poked around at the camera and couldn't figure out how to find my video file. My clock wasn't set so there were no timestamps and the newest video file available was from two days prior, which didn't make sense with 3 minute clips. So I let the drivers know I would have to take the card out and download the video once I got back to work.

I finally found the instruction manual online and was flipping through it seeing if there was a way to fast forward through clips when I saw the wi-fi option...totally forgot the camera had wifi. Took several minutes of Googling to find the right app in the app store only to realize it was already on my phone even though searching my phone for every combination of "dash," "cam," "z3pro," etc. wouldn't pull it up. Opened it up, connected to the camera, loaded the clip, boom, there it was. I hopped out to take that to the officer but the truck driver intercepted me on the way, he was...very...interested in what I had found. So I let the officer know I would be able to download the video and she gave me a link that I could use to submit it. Only when I played it fullscreen did I realize that I can see the opposite stoplight on the right side. Definitely red before the truck entered the intersection.

[subego]

Woops!

[reader50]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Only when I played it fullscreen did I realize that I can see the opposite stoplight on the right side. Definitely red before the truck entered the intersection.

Good catch - you'd never have seen that on the cam's built-in screen.

My cam did catch someone going around a red-light once. Turn right into alley behind me, left through a parking lot, left onto cross street, right at the intersection. The light was still red for us, this took very little time.

Alas, my rear cam wasn't working at the time. The forward cam just showed someone on the cross street turning right at the light. Which was still red for us.

[Brien]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

Tons of vehicles have the stop/start thing now. Not sure if it’s required, though.

I believe it is; luckily MT's don't have them (AFAIK). My GTI sure doesn't!

[Thorzdad]

I can disable it in my Forester.

[andi*pandi]

I can disable it too. In theory I wouldn't mind it if it didn't turn off just 3 seconds too soon, for the type of stop and go I do. The stalling is jarring, it sounds like the car is dying, and then there's a pause when it starts up again that just lags into traffic. If I were stuck on the interstate for 5 minutes it totally makes sense.

[Thorzdad]

In my Forester, I’ve found that it’s dependent on how much pressure you put on the brake pedal. You can stop the car and hold it there without the engine shutting off by not fully pressing down on the pedal.

[ghporter]

My last three cars have had it: a 2013 BMW x3, a 2017 Honda CR-V, and a 2021 Honda CR-V. I've found finessing the brake can keep it from activating while still keeping the car from moving. And, at least with the Hondas, tweaking the steering wheel a little bit restarts the engine. The best I can figure is that it triggers the power steering, which puts a load on the engine, etc.

I also switch it off when I'm trying to enter traffic and need lag-free power.

[subego]

In my one experience with it I kept stopping short and creeping forward to keep the engine running.