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<p>Heaven save us from convenience features like that one!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/25/2020 9:39 AM, Jim Becker wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 10:21 PM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] driver convenience systems</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 24, 2020 9:36 PM</div>
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<div>On Jan 24, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Jim Becker <<a
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">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
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Roger</div>
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