alt Hacker Newsyou just stuck in this paradigm, this apple/auto surprised me so many times :
- when you need to re-pair Bluetooth
- when you forget the cable to charge and you need to drive
- when you want to share your car to someone and they need to spend 5 minutes to accept every single ToS possible to simply put a GPS
- several people with phones paired before, now you dealing with complete random
you name it.
- you listen music and you need to go out to buy something while others in the car
None of these problems exist if you have a decent, dedicated computer in the car that just works, it knows profiles, it does need you to be always on wire, or on the line.
The TLDR; answer to all your problems is: "Just use a freaking USB cable".
I rent tons of cars and my experience with the wired AndroidAuto is:
1. Plug it in.
2. That's it. It just works. No ToS or any other crap.
3. The same cable also supplies power!
Some cars _may_ need me to press something on the screen to switch to AA mode, but it's rare.
And it works perfectly with _everything_ on my phone. A navigator properly pauses my audiobook before announcing a turn, for example.