Automobile: the driver's mobile phone will soon be used as a GPS and on-board computer

The innovation of the day is the cell phone which is slowly vampirizing the car's electronic systems.

Soon there will be no more screen on the dashboard.

The driver's phone will act as the GPS and on-board computer.

This is what the next Dacia Sandero will offer.

In place of the touchscreen, normally installed in the middle of the dashboard.

We will see a hatch, with a base, on which we will connect our mobile phone.

Everything is obviously planned to secure it well, whatever its size, whatever its brand.

It just needs to be Android or iPhone compatible.

Then, we launch an application and we have access to all the classic functions: radio, GPS, speed, kilometers traveled or fuel consumption.

As well as to all mobile applications: SMS, voice assistant, etc.

Everything goes through the phone screen, or are there buttons on the dashboard anyway?

Yes, there are still pimples.

The advantage is that they will also control the phone.

We can, for example, lower the sound on the console or change the song while driving.

The integration is really total.

This is the meaning of the story.

Many people already hang their mobile on the dashboard.

Many also prefer the GPS in the phone to that in the car.

Or use their music app, rather than CDs.

Integration was inevitable.

Do you think this is something that could be generalized?

Integration, yes.

The small screen of the telephone which replaces the large on-board computer, without doubt not.

Or, only in the entry level.

For Dacia, it was probably a way to cut costs: why install a touchscreen in the car, when everyone has one in their pocket?

But on the high end, I think that we will prefer to duplicate the screen of our phone on the big screen of the car.