Apple wants to use your car’s dashboard to display directions and news - Android

Using your smartphone while driving is dangerous and you shouldn’t do it. But car companies know that humans are bad at self-discipline and are working with phone makers to make our trips at least a bit safer. That’s how we got Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

But it seems Apple thinks having to look to your car’s central column is still too much of a distraction and is looking for ways to keep you better focused on the road. A spotted by shows what the company has in mind.

Beautifully named “Instrument cluster metadata to support second screen”, the patent is for a technology that ...