or even a rumble in your seat lane keeping assist often used as a companion to lane departure warning lane keeping assist takes the extra step of recentering the vehicle by applying light steering correction though its not what you should consider selfdriving you may feel a light tug as the wheel turns slightly in your hand recentering the car in its lane if you have cruise control activated lane keeping assist may deactivate cruise forcing you to take more control of the car these systems are found in latemodel vehicles from bmw cadillac honda and more android auto and apple carplay these two smartphone integration systems come in nearly every new vehicle on sale today when you connect your android or apple phone to the vehicle the system will display many of your smartphones apps in your cars infotainment system while these systems may seem like another distraction android auto and apple carplay can be beneficial they provide a reliable voice control that can read out and reply to text messages use navigation apps on your phone and allow you to communicate without looking at your phone they can also prevent the phone from being used by locking out certain functions including the onscreen keyboard on android phones locking out controls many vehicles from mazda toyota and volkswagen still use this older antidistraction method today these cars will partially lock out controls for an onscreen keyboard while the car is moving so you cant type in an address for example but these functions can still be accessed by using voice commands all this is done to prevent you from looking away from the road and down at a screen for an extended time ap published on apr 29 2020 at 0925 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app driver monitoring systems android auto distracted driving auto technology apple car play homenewsauto technologycar tech to guard against distracted driving