{"id":11519,"date":"2021-09-01T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:40:28","slug":"survey-finds-drivers-1-concern-is-easier-smartphone-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/survey-finds-drivers-1-concern-is-easier-smartphone-pairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Finds Drivers #1 Concern Is Easier Smartphone Pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>J.D. Power has found that struggles connecting smartphones to in-car infotainment systems are the number one consumer complaint of drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Initial Quality Study focuses on the challenges automakers face when trying to turn their cars into smartphones on wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.D. Power says disruptions to the electronic and infotainment systems account for six of every ten most complaints from U.S. buyers of 2021 vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice recognition systems, which had been the top issue since 2012, ranked second among the most urgent complaints out of nearly 111,000 respondents. This year&#8217;s decline is due to drivers now using voice commands on their phones, effectively bypassing in-vehicle systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In third place are complaints about touchscreens on the dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.D. Power&#8217;s Initial Quality Study is used by automakers as a scorecard for product design and manufacturing quality, while the top ratings for brands or models are mostly used in advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/autos-quality-jdpower\/phone-wont-talk-to-your-car-you-are-not-alone-study-idUSKBN2FW1J0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> from Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Power has found that struggles connecting smartphones to in-car infotainment systems are the number one consumer complaint of drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11551,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions\/11551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}