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Brett T. Evans

GM Says Ditching Apple CarPlay Reduces Distractions. Except It Doesn't

A few days ago, a General Motors representative told Motor Trend that one of the reasons the automaker was going to stop using Apple CarPlay and Android Auto was to quell driver distraction. Tim Babbitt, GM's head of product for infotainment development, told the magazine that smartphone mirroring systems occasionally glitch, encouraging drivers to fiddle with their devices instead of using the less distracting infotainment system.

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