See: Samsung selling "AI" vacuum cleaners and washing machines

Most OEM infotainment sucks, and it's taken a while for things to improve. I'd be willing to say your older car has a resistive touchscreen and physically couldn't support multitouch

CarPlay is definitely an improvement if you're comparing it to something like Ford Sync for example

My car supports multitouch in factory nav but not CarPlay (24 plate VAG).

This wouldn't be a solution to the argument in the article: Rivian and Tesla don't want to support phones projecting to infotainment

As it is, CarPlay is implemented as a h264 video stream which receives touch, microphone, and metadata from the vehicle, the protocol is fine albeit proprietary

As a owner of a GM without android auto, never again. Everything is on my phone but I can't safely access it while driving. Also can't legally because my state makes using the phone while driving illegal (for good reason. I suspect most states don't allow it)

The AI providers will experiment on their users, and keep going until they lose users

It'll be like Facebook; they're not losing money but it's awful to use