We have a new 2024 Equinox. When playing the USB in Infotainment Center, manual browsing is not permitted when the vehicle is moving (in you are alone). You can only use the speak function to change things....this is a mess since it never gets your speech correct and after a few times of speaking things and it get it's wrong, or you say something like play BJ Thomas, it will say, "Ok, calling BJ" (who is one of my contacts) and if you have a half dozen albums in your USB you cannot play a certain album, you can only speak an Artist....... This makes no sense since you can change the AM/FM, Sirius Satellite, and Smartphone things manually if you are alone. IS there a way to override the system and make the vehicle think someone else is in the car when you are alone? I have pulled the fuse for the "occupancy" and it did not work......... ...
IS there a way to override the system and make the vehicle think someone else is in the car when you are alone?
I doubt anyone here will help you defeat/deactivate your SRS system and that's likely what you'd have to 'override'.
@hixster The SRS system does not control the Infotainment system.... I have pulled the fuse for the SRS system and the dash tells me a warning the SRS system has been deactivated, and the vehicle still locks your out of changing anything manually on the Thumbdrive.
@hixster The SRS system does not control the Infotainment system.... I have pulled the fuse for the SRS system and the dash tells me a warning the SRS system has been deactivated, and the vehicle still locks your out of changing anything manually on the Thumbdrive.I know of no method to alter the Infotainment system's USB functionality without a change in its software. It's unfortunately that simple.
No. It probably interfaces with the SRS system as well, on the passenger side. USB drives mean you most likely have more than one artist on the drive. It locks out because of the length of time you need is enough to take your eyes off the road. It's most likely more than a few seconds and the engineers don't want you browsing through albums, so you can become a statistic.
Play albums when you're stopped at red lights.
@justin-shepherd I guess you will not take your eyes off the road when selecting a station on Tune-in, or a song off Spotify, or changing the channel on terrestrial or satellite radio, or tuning into Weather or on the infotainment center.
I guess you will not take your eyes off the road when selecting a station on Tune-in, or a song off Spotify, or changing the channel on terrestrial or satellite radio, or tuning into Weather or on the infotainment center.
Your cell phone and the car's electronics are two different systems. It doesn't know whether or not you're driving a car when you're using Spotify.
You can also hear what's playing without looking at the station, or looking at very briefly. You should have some idea on what your station presets are, anyways. You set them when you bought the car. Bottom line is, it's unsafe to be browsing through albums while driving, hence the engineers prohibited the USB album function while driving. It's basically the same thing as texting and driving, short or not. Nobody has multitasking capability.
@justin-shepherd You can use the buttons behind the steering wheel to browse, and the selections are displayed on the dashboard right in front of you on the display....... you can browse all the satellite channels, and all the radio channels, and all the Tune In channels, and you can browse all the listening options while driving BUT the USB...... it really makes no sense. You can speak a USB selection but if you have a half dozen albums by the same artist it does not allow you to speak which album you'd like to listen to....... I'll just keep pulling over on the interstate and stopping on the shoulder to make a change.....got to love a car manufacturer that forces you to pull over on a highway to make a selection.
@justin-shepherd You said "no one has muti-tasking" capability... I beg to differ... I used to work at a radio station that had 2 different sets of programming on an AM and an FM channel...with 2 different sets of programming and no one was at the station except me and I'd have to listen to both at once and run the station (in the days long before computers)............................
@justin-shepherd Who said anything about a cell phone? The car has it's own internet connection and can access things like Spotify and Tune In..... etc.....
Humans are chemical computers are are not designed to handle multi-tasking. You may think you're "multi-tasking", but you're not. You're doing two simple things that make you seem like you can multi-task. You can't concentrate on driving, as well as try to select different albums at the same time.
@justin-shepherd I just randomly select a different tape to put in the player when driving if a different album is desired. If something specific is desired for the drive I arrange the necessary tape(s) ahead of time so they can be just swapped without having to even think about it. (Since none of my vehicles have those ridiculous touch screens and everything in the dash is fixed in place I don't even have to take my eyes off the road.)
I don't have the touchscreens, either. My '99 Ranger has the fancy equipment from a 1999 Mazda B3000. It originally came with just a CD player but the clock didn't work. While I was looking through the junkyard a few years ago, I noticed a B3000 had the factory original cassette player and CD player combo. I jumped on that. Haha.
My 2017 Mustang doesn't have touch screens, either. I wasn't aware that you can connect to the internet from your car, now. To be honest, I didn't know that was even a thing yet. Lol. I knew airliners had Wi-Fi if you pay to upgrade. Obviously, I don't. Pay for it. I can deal with not being "connected" every once in a while.
Carry a big dumbbell in the front seat. Problem solved. Just make sure you strap it in so it doesn’t fly at you if you crash
@bobthehatking I have put multiple weights in the front seat and it does not work.
It needs to weigh at least as much as a teenager. Or maybe there are more sensors than just a simple weight sensor in these newer cars, idk. Do you have the seatbelt buckled?
@bobthehatking I had 75 Pounds in the seat, and if a seatbelt is not buckled it makes a tone and the red light comes on the dash.