Why are many cars’ screens slow and laggy when a $400 phone can have a smooth performance?
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Most car makers don’t give a hoot about the infotainment system and outsource it to the lowest OEM. Because it’s proprietary garbage, there’s little competition and they have no incentive to modernize quickly.
The car makers are at odds with the consumer: car makers want everything integrated and proprietary so that if something breaks, you have to go to a service center. Consumers want user serviceable, easily replaceable, inexpensive, modern equipment.
The best solution would be to have one tightly integrated system for crucial controls such as lights, ventilation, etc. A second infotainment system could be as simple as an Android tablet bolted into the dash. Far cheaper, but it doesn’t lock in the customer. Android Auto and Apple CarPlay try to bridge that by making the car’s built-in screen a “dumb” display controlled by the customer’s phone/tablet. But as expected the experience sucks because they don’t have any incentive to make that work well.
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