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that’s awesome! Congrats on the new car! My work truck is a GMC and its’ the same thing with the radio, mute only. It’s really weird.
Yeah weird.
OK here’s the thing though. CLEARLY, the radio off button in the VW we just got rid of, and in the Subaru, isn’t really an “off” button either. When you start the car, it takes a moment for the radio to boot up. If you’ve been in the car with it in for a while, and turn on the radio, it comes up instantly. I cast via Bluetooth from my phone all the time, and even if the radio’s off in the Subaru, the music app on my phone comes up, brings up the song, and then pauses itself: it has been connected to, clearly, by the car’s sound system, and therefore, the car’s sound system is on. It’s just not doing anything.
So Mazda and apparently GMC have just decided that they want this to be obvious. The sound system is active when the car is on.
Clearly, in both the VW (it was a 2011 model year) and the Subaru (a 2014), the same thing is true, but they labeled the button “power” and set it to black the screen. Mazda and GMC have made a software choice to make it more obvious that’s what’s going on.
I don’t need them to show me, though. I know my car’s sound system isn’t really off! I don’t really need it to stay lit up with a MUTE symbol on it; when I press the power button, I’m dismissing the function because I’m driving a car and don’t want to be distracted.
why do you insist on distracting me mazda
what is your nefarious plan
that’s awesome! Congrats on the new car! My work truck is a GMC and its’ the same thing with the radio, mute only. It’s really weird.
Yeah weird.
OK here’s the thing though. CLEARLY, the radio off button in the VW we just got rid of, and in the Subaru, isn’t really an “off” button either. When you start the car, it takes a moment for the radio to boot up. If you’ve been in the car with it in for a while, and turn on the radio, it comes up instantly. I cast via Bluetooth from my phone all the time, and even if the radio’s off in the Subaru, the music app on my phone comes up, brings up the song, and then pauses itself: it has been connected to, clearly, by the car’s sound system, and therefore, the car’s sound system is on. It’s just not doing anything.
So Mazda and apparently GMC have just decided that they want this to be obvious. The sound system is active when the car is on.
Clearly, in both the VW (it was a 2011 model year) and the Subaru (a 2014), the same thing is true, but they labeled the button “power” and set it to black the screen. Mazda and GMC have made a software choice to make it more obvious that’s what’s going on.
I don’t need them to show me, though. I know my car’s sound system isn’t really off! I don’t really need it to stay lit up with a MUTE symbol on it; when I press the power button, I’m dismissing the function because I’m driving a car and don’t want to be distracted.
why do you insist on distracting me mazda
what is your nefarious plan
