[AT] driver convenience systems

[Mark Johnson]

Heaven save us from convenience features like that one!

On 1/25/2020 9:39 AM, Jim Becker wrote:
> I hesitate to reply to my own email.  It seems a bit pathological.  
> But here is another quirk that I was reminded shows up in the Equinox.
> It has the auto stop/start feature that shuts the engine off when you 
> are in Drive, completely stopped, and your foot is on the brake.  It 
> seems like a reasonable rule for when to stop/start.  I understand it 
> bothers some people but I don’t have a problem with it.  The weird 
> thing is when you pull into a parking place or garage.  If you 
> hesitate (and not much) on pushing it into Park, it will shut the 
> engine off.  Then you put it in Park and it restarts the engine. Then 
> you have to push the button to shut it back off.
> I have a light in the house that has a similar behavior. My basement 
> stairs have a switch at the top that controls a ceiling light at the 
> bottom of the stairs.  Illumination at the top of the stairs was 
> tolerable but not great.  I was thinking about fishing a wire from the 
> basement fixture to the wall above the switch.  My brother-in-law 
> suggested getting a motion and light level detecting battery-powered 
> LED fixture for the top of the stairs, which I did.  The weird thing 
> about it that when you are going up the stairs and turn the wall 
> switch off.  If there was enough light, the LED would not be on.  When 
> you reach the top and turn the light off, the LED light goes on.  
> After a year and a half, I still am not used to that.
> Jim Becker
> *From:* Jim Becker
> *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2020 10:21 PM
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] driver convenience systems
> 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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