[AT] driver convenience systems

[Jim Becker]

That might work.  I know that at least on the 2012 Cruz the phone button on the steering wheel and the phone button on the instrument panel don’t act exactly the same.  My cell phone is usually unreachable in my pocket.  But if it is out and accessible I can initiate a call with the cell phone then talk through the bluetooth.  My wife has found that she can use google maps turn-by-turn instructions on her phone and have them displayed on the in-dash display.

Yes, the Equinox is an upscale version.  We decided at our ages the adaptive cruise, blind spot warning, lane departure etc. might become more important before wear the car out.

Jim Becker

From: Roger Moffat 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 9:36 PM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: [AT] driver convenience systems




  On Jan 24, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com> wrote:

  Since my cell phone is paired up with bluetooth and the car has a "built-in" cell phone as part of onStar, I'm not always sure which phone I'm using.  I know which one it is when it tells me I don't have any minutes, which the built-in phone never has.  I should have said it doesn't let anyone key an actual phone number on the control panel, evidently regardless of which phone you are using.  I never have been able to use the saved contacts on my phone either.  That may be me, not the system.  It will let me use the contact list of the built-in phone.  I am able to answer my phone through bluetooth, no problem.  Some of what I'm remembering may be with my 2012 Cruz rather than the 2019 equinox, but I think they both behave about the same regarding the cell phones.


We can make calls from our Equinox while driving by using the phone's capabilities when connected to the Equinox - press the phone button on the steering wheel, and my iPhone’s Siri activates, so I can then say “Call my wife” and Siri then dials and connects and I speak through the connection on the car.

I would assume that if you have an Android phone something similar can be setup so that you can dial “hands free” by giving voice commands to the phone through the car.

>From the sounds of other things you say, yours must be a higher level model - we have rear camera, but no forward camera, and don’t have the steering wheel nagging at us either.

Roger


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