Android Auto alerts highly intrusive, even dangerous
[On a knob-controlled UI]
Popups like “Police ahead”, and “vehicle on shoulder ahead” can be very intrusive. They seem to appear much earlier than before and there is no way to simply dismiss it without confirming or negating the alert. I would suggest that hitting the “Back” button should dismiss the alert.
Responding to the alert is way too involved. When I get an alert, the “Still there” button is highlighted, however it is not the selected control. Usually, the Search button is. So, it looks like I can just click my knob to confirm the alert, but when I do the whole screen clears and I am brought into your search menu system. This is incredibly disruptive, usually happening at the worst possible moment because of the first problem I mentioned – the inability to simply dismiss the alert. Further, to actually select one of the responses I have to spin the knob to move through every other control on the screen: Search, Routes, Dismiss, Map move, Map zoom in, Map zoom out, Submit an alert… Again, this is incredibly disruptive and could easily cause an accident because I am forced to look at the screen while selecting from a dozen items just to dismiss the popup that is now blocking my map. I really can’t emphasize enough of how annoying, and frankly dangerous, this is